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

Language

en

Duration

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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.

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.