Edmund Trelawny Backhouse: 3 books
Décadence Mandchoue
The China Memoirs of Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
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...
Manchu Decadence
The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
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,...
China Under the Empress Dowager
The History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, this account explores the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (18611908). Entertaining and enlightening, this record examines a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines, and Mandarins. Filled with...