Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Chinese Titles. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Titles.

A letter received by the London Truth respecting the sale of official rank in China throws a somewhat new light on the question. It says that when the Celestial Government sells its orders and decorations it gives no fixity of tenure. The wearer of the brass button, the blue glass, or the pheasant feather, is a mere tenant at will. By a mere stroke of the official pen his insignia may be confiscated—like poor LI Hung Chang’s peacock feathers and yellow’ jacket—and unless he Is prepared to buy them back again he relapses into a mere undecorated nobody.