Decadence Mandchoue : the China memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
Title:
Decadence Mandchoue : the China memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
Author:
Sandhaus, Derek
ISBN:
9789881944511
Publication Information:
Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, 2011
Physical Description:
xxx, 297 p. ; 25 cm
Abstract:
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. Published now for the first time, the controversial memoirs of Sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, De?cadence Mandchoue, provide a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's imperial palace, with its rampant corruption, grandconspiracies and uninhibited sexuality. Backhouse was made notorious by Hugh Trevor-Roper's 1976 bestseller "Hermit of Peking," which accus.
Subject:
| Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944 |
| Sinologists -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908 |
| China -- Politics and government -- 19th century |
| Manchus -- China -- History |
Summary:
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. Published now for the first time, the controversial memoirs of Sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, De?cadence Mandchoue, provide a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's imperial palace, with its rampant corruption, grandconspiracies and uninhibited sexuality. Backhouse was made notorious by Hugh Trevor-Roper's 1976 bestseller "Hermit of Peking," which accus.