Manchu Decadence: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Derek Sandhaus

Manchu Decadence: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated

Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Derek Sandhaus

390 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative 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. The man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, a...

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