ABSTRACT
Restless under the rule of the Manchus, the Chinese expressed their angry nationalism by worshipping Yo Fei and Kuan Yu, and their alien emperors found it expedient to deflect popular hostility by honoring the cult of Kuan Yu themselves. The one ambition of the single-minded Yo Fei was to reconquer the north for China. He began to score heavily and repeatedly against the enemy until, to the joy of the Chinese populace, he and his son had taken their army to within fifteen miles of Kaifeng, and his successes north of the Yellow River were threatening to force the Kin back toward their original homeland in Manchuria. They were all the more dangerous because they might so easily belong to the realm of the rebel rather than the realm of the ruler. The Chinese hsieh, like the Christian knight, defended the country against the enemy, the weak against the wicked, the poor against the proud.
