Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse by Derek Sandhaus, Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

Derek Sandhaus, Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

336 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative mysterious slow-paced
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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, t...

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