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Manchu Decadence - The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated (Paperback)
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Manchu Decadence - The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated (Paperback)
Series: China History
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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, DEcadence 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.
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