| Private Secretaries can be seen in all level governments of the Qing Dynasty. They played an irreplaceable role in maintaining and operating the political institutions then. Besides handling complicate and tedious government relationships, Private Secretaries also needed to pay important attention to some personal relationships as far as political affairs were concerned. Those personal relationships connected so closely to each other that any movement of a single factor would affect the whole system.Prudent and careful as they, mistakes could be made when handling the above relationships. Thus, they needed to be vigilant in order to avoid mistakes and be capable to cope with any mistakes which had been taken. However, even a skilled Private Secretaries cannot avoid any mistakes because of some uncertainties. Besides, the Specificity of their career, the majority Private Secretaries believed Ghosts. Such thoughts were displayed in daily life when they communicated with others. And to understand the specific actions of Private Secretaries in deal with personal relationship, we need to explore their mentality in career.This paper aims to discuss the relationships between Private Secretaries and their contactors. Those contactors included their leaders, co-workers, family members, relatives, friends, teachers and students. As Private Secretaries and their leaders met frequently and directly, their relationship becomes a prominent one which also presents vivid description of the career. Discussed from different aspects, such relationship forms the main part of this article. The relationship between Private Secretaries and other contactors further shows the complexity of human relationships in Private Secretaries'career. And we need to notice that Private Secretaries usually played different roles in daily life.Private Secretaries was'supposed to be a advisor. They were not officials but what they did was related to government affairs. They usually did well in advising their leaders. Private Secretaries believed in ghosts and Karma, especially those whose work related to penalty.According to their belief they tried to accumulate virtue as well as responsible for their work. |