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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
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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
en
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.
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.
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