Afterwards, he joined the famous Vietroy, Chang Chihetung, in Cans ton, as secretary. The Viceroy insted that it was a disgrace for a Chinese not to know his own liter ature, so Ku Hung-ming plunged into Chinese under the Viecreral tutelage and shortly achieved dis. tinction. Because of his Inck of youthful training, he was never able to wield the brush as an adept, but hie could pencil poems and essays ich the highest scholars envied.
Tu 1900, when the Boxer situation most' difficult for the Yangtze roys, Ku Hung-ming negotiated toan from Lord Salisbury for Chang Chih-tung which enabled the Viewoy. to maintain the stabitit of the Yangtze area, is career as of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board is well-known in Shanghai, 'After the revolution, he was some: Athat in the background because he was 80 strenuously opposed to a Change. He was not pro-Manciu, but he always upheld any old customs against a tendency' to re-ion. In 10117, he became the most enthusiastic publicist for Chang Houn's brief effort to revive the dynasty, since when he had lived a Yvotived life, except for his recent Tecture tour in Japan. He lived for many years in quarters provided by the Manchu architect of the Empress Dowager famous Summer Palace, with whom he shared a taste for antiquities
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