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Décadence Mandchoue : the China memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse / edited and introduced by Derek Sandhaus.
- Title
- Décadence Mandchoue : the China memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse / edited and introduced by Derek Sandhaus.
- Author
- Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944
- Publication
- Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS734.9.B3 A3 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sandhaus, Derek
- Description
- xxx, 297 p. : ports., facsims.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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. Published now for the first time, the controversial memoir of sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse provides a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's imperial palace with its rampant corruption, grand conspiracies and uninhibited sexuality."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Text in English with some Chinese characters.
- Contents
- Peking interlude -- The beginning of a time -- His excellency Jungliu -- Summer palace nocturne -- Eunuch diversions -- The Hammam and the intrusion -- Under the mulberry bush -- The vampire prince -- The fire from heaven -- Le cabinet secret de la vie -- A hair-breadth escape -- The mantle of cagliostro -- The letter and the judgement -- The demon-ridden eunuch -- The white cloud temple -- Her last autumn picnic -- Their mortal hour -- The desecrated mausolea -- A retrospect of diviner hours.
- ISBN
- 9789881944511
- 9881944511
- OCLC
- 712740956
- SCSB-13795480
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library