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DECADENCE MANDCHOUE
THE CHINA MEMOIRS OF SIR EDMUND TRELAWNY BACKHOUSE |
| By: |
Edmund Backhouse, Derek Sandhaus (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9881944511 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789881944511 |
| Publisher: |
EARNSHAW BOOKS LIMITED |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2011 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that, as he claims, took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. |
| Synopsis: |
Published now for the first time, the controversial memoir of Sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, Decadence Mandchoue, provides a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's imperial palace with its rampant corruption, grand conspiracies and uninhibited sexuality. Backhouse was made notorious by Hugh Trevor-Roper's 1976 bestseller Hermit of Peking, which accused Backhouse of fraudulence and forgery. This work, written shortly before the author's death in 1943, was dismissed by Trevor-Roper as nothing more than a pornographic noveletteA" and lay for decades forgotten and unpublished in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Yet even the most incredible tales deserve at least a second opinion. This edition, created using a combination of the three original manuscripts held by the Bodleian, has been comprehensively annotated, fully translated and features an introduction by editor Derek Sandhaus, urging a reappraisal of Backhouse's legacy.Alternately shocking and lyrical, Decadence Mandchoue is the masterwork of a linguistic genius; a tremendous literary achievement and a sensational account of the inner workings of the Manchu dynasty in the years before its collapse in 1911. If true, Backhouse's chronicle completely reshapes contemporary historians' understanding of the era, and provides an account of the Empress Dowager and her inner circle that can only be described as intimate. |
| Illustrations: |
6 mono photos |
| Publication: |
Hong Kong |
| Imprint: |
Earnshaw Books Limited |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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