Manchu Decadence The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated |
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| Author:
| Backhouse, Edmund Trelawny |
| Editor:
| Sandhaus, Derek |
| Series title: | China History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-988-19982-8-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
| Publisher: | Earnshaw Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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, and his controversial memoirs,
Décadence Mandchoue, were published for the first time by Earnshaw Books in 2011. This edition, renamed
Manchu Decadence, is abridged and unexpurgated, meaning that it focuses on the most...
More DescriptionIn 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, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence Mandchoue, were published for the first time by Earnshaw Books in 2011. This edition, renamed Manchu Decadence, is abridged and unexpurgated, meaning that it focuses on the most extraordinary and valuable elements of Backhouse's narrative. Backhouse was a talented sinologist, and his book provides a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's imperial palace, with its rampant corruption, grand conspiracies and uninhibited sexuality.