Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Echoes From China: The Story of My Life and Lectures
Book of Revelations, because the dragon has done much mischief in China too.
It was at such a dragon feast my great grand father's nephew killed a man during the fight. My great grandfather offered to suffer punish ment instead of him. Now in China courts of law are not well organized, and the officers and yamen runners take advantage of such Opportunities to squeeze the people, especially if the arrested one is rich. When he was in prison the yamen runners would privately threaten to beat the prisoner and treat him in many cruel ways. The only way to escape such treatment was to pay bribes. My great grandfather had to sell his house and fields, and in fact all his properties to bribe officers and yamen runners in order to help his nephew, and at last he died in prison in Wuchang.
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