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Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse
China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi

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China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi

by Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy) Bland

EN·~18 hours·33 chapters

Chapters

33 total

NOTE

1:38

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

2:04

INDEX TO NUMBERED MAP OF PEKING

9:32

I THE PARENTAGE AND YOUTH OF YEHONALA

26:00

II THE FLIGHT TO JEHOL

34:21

III THE TSAI YÜAN CONSPIRACY

41:35

IV THE FIRST REGENCY

25:54

V TSENG KUO-FAN AND THE TAIPING REBELLION (1864)

34:07

VI TZŬ HSI AND THE EUNUCHS

58:36

VII A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE

13:20

Description

"Since [Backhouse's] death, [...], it has been established that the major source of his China Under the Empress Dowager is a forgery, most likely by Backhouse himself." --Wikipedia page on Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, viewed Nov. 7, 2023.

Details

Language

Duration

~18 hours (1051K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2023-11-04

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 Empresses -- China -- Biography China -- Politics and government -- 19th century China -- History -- 19th century

About the authors

Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse

1873–1944

A brilliant and deeply controversial scholar of China, this British baronet helped shape Western ideas about the final years of the Qing court. His life later became almost as famous as his books, as historians unraveled the mix of real expertise, invention, and self-mythmaking behind his legend.

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J. O. P. (John Otway Percy) Bland

1863–1945

A British journalist and writer in China, he became known for vivid books on late Qing politics and the dramatic final years of the empire. His work drew on long firsthand experience in Beijing and helped shape how many English-language readers understood modern Chinese history.