清帝国之乱

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• 对拳民运动，清政府自始至终都心口不ー，缺乏诚意。一方面，朝廷每每发布上谕，总是言辞严厉强硬，不容置疑；另一方面，随后便会传达“密旨”，旨意内容与公之于众的上谕大相径庭，背道而驰。这才是致命的问题。这种做法在东亚几国屡见不鲜，因为他们觉得这是理所当然之事。同样，满清之内，上至州府，下至郡县，官府通告声明无一不是如此。长此以往，民众对此已是见怪不怪，甚至仅凭直觉便能判断官府通告究竟是言为心声，还是口是心非，也能据此采取相应行动，以求自保。然而，在华洋人，对此一无所知，官文屡放承诺要严惩义和拳，他们都信以为真。但是，当1月11日清廷再度发布上渝时，它两面派的伪善面孔终于被看穿，洋人顿时明白清廷的险恶用心。 (查看原文)

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• 78页末尾"人们都会有关于铁路的难以捉摸的念头，觉得铁路铺设的枕木......"一段翻译有误。应该是说中国人对铁轨有致命的迷恋，因为高度像中式枕头，经常有人横躺在铁路上枕着铁轨，以至于司机晚上要开得很慢，但还是总有中国人丧命。 原文为 At the introduction of every Chinese railway there is a fatal fascination about the rails, which are about the height of a Chinese pillow-often a mere support for the back of the neck only-so that in the dim light of the night the engineer may see before his swift-speeding engine a long row of brown forms, each stretched across the track with his head beyond the rails. On such occasions it has sometimes been necessary to run trains at " dead slow " for miles together. In the early days of the line to the Tangshan coal-mines there was a sort of market rate of thirty taels for Chinese killed by accident, but it was alleged that too many Chinese seemed disposed to " get a li... (查看原文)

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