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

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

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"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.

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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

Nov 4, 2023

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72032

Subjects

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

About the authors

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

1863–1945

A British journalist and writer who spent much of his working life in China, he became known for vivid, strongly argued books on Chinese politics and history. His firsthand experience gave his work an immediacy that still makes it a revealing window into its era.

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Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse

1873–1944

A brilliant and deeply controversial scholar of late imperial China, this British baronet spent decades in Beijing and helped shape Western views of the Qing court. His books were once hugely influential, but later historians found that some of the documents behind them were fabricated.

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