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When in December, 1915, I was reading the numerous telegraphic messages from the provinces urging Mr. Yuan Shih-kai to become emperor, my curiosity was aroused by the fact that while the messages differed from one another both in conception and in execution, there were 40 odd words which occurred together in all of them. These words were:
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A Documentary History of the Recent Monarchical Movement in China.
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See my article in The Outlook, September 1, 1915.
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Quoted at the beginning of this article.
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Gardner L. Harding, Present-day China, p. 9.
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Chou, CP. (2013). Manufacturing the Will of the People. In: Chou, CP. (eds) English Writings of Hu Shih. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33164-0_4
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