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death. From this time also, as they aver who were in close
touch with the life of the Court, the Emperor's Consort, 1
Tzŭ Hsi's niece, became openly alienated from him, and
their relations grew more severely strained as his reform
tendencies developed and took shape. From 1894 to 1896
there was no noticeable change in the attitude of the
Emperor to his august aunt, nor any diminution of his
respectful attentions, but the man in the street knew well,
as he always knows in China, of the rift in the lute, and
when, in 1896, the Emperor's mother ( Tzŭ's sister) died, it
was realised that the last bond of amity and possible recon-
ciliation between Kuang-Hsü and the Empress Dowager
had been severed.

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1 Now known as the Empress Dowager Lung Yü.

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Publication Information: Book Title: China under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi. Contributors: J. O. P. Bland - compiler, E. Backhouse - compiler. Publisher: J. B. Lippincott. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: 177.
    
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