New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918
by
Pamela Nightingale, C.P. Skrine
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1973.
This book describes the career of Sir George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's most westerly province.
Macartney was in a unique position to observe political and diplomatic manoeuvres...