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{PDF EPUB} Decadence Mandchoue the China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Décadence Mandchoue The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse DECADENCE MANDCHOUE PDF. Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, ed. Derek Sandhaus. Paul French. Uploaded by. Paul French. DÉCADENCE. Décadence Mandchoue has 34 ratings and 4 reviews. Linda said: Decadence Mandchoue, like its author, Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, is sui generis. Published now for the first time, Décadence Mandchoue, the controversial memoirs of sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, provides a unique. Author: Kigasar Akikasa Country: Mongolia Language: English (Spanish) Genre: Marketing Published (Last): 27 September 2012 Pages: 477 PDF File Size: 16.57 Mb ePub File Size: 7.89 Mb ISBN: 700-1-42589-490-1 Downloads: 64590 Price: Free* [ *Free Regsitration Required ] Uploader: Zulkizuru. Books by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse. Makes for a decaddence read, indeed. The Wisdom of Confucius. Hoeppli saw Backhouse a sick and aged man in a Peking then occupied by the Japanese and a hollow shell of its former self as irascible for sure, distant and out of touch with the politics and ideologies of modern England and Europe probably, but far from a close up and personal supporter of the Axis powers. A History of Chinese Literature. Some content supplied by. A third way to read the book, as neither a historical narrative nor a source of historical details, is purely as entertainment. He also presents himself as a confidant of, among others, Cixi and her chief eunuch, and writes of the favors requested of him as his influence within the court grew. The Dragon King’s Daughter. The Analects of Confucius. Grande conoscitore di trame e retroscena politici o millantatore falsario e narcisista? Decadence Mandchoue. Hans-Joachim Stark rated it really liked it Jun 26, None but the Nightingale. The book cover to look for in Shanghai starting this weekend. Love and the Turning Year. The Wallet of Kai Lung. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Vitalii Prystupa rated it it was amazing Oct 13, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Foton Peng rated it it was amazing Dec 25, Item s unavailable for purchase. Decadence Mandchoue’s Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse | CNN Travel. Aug 11, Emmapeel rated it it was amazing Shelves: Surely no surprise to us in the post-Lady Di generation. The text also contains some non- sequiturs and implausible motivations that read like the contrivances of a porn video. Malte Blas rated it really liked it Jan 16, mandchour In Backhouse, as with all of the above, we have a true and dedicated aesthete in our presence. No embellishment, no gilded lily, just pure invention; or at least exaggeration. Jan 30, Michael Flick rated it it was ok. The Sayings of Confucius Decwdence Edition. But, Sandhaus argues, the germ of truth is always there. Backhouse said many things – about politics, about China, about mandcyoue British, about Jews, about everything – he was often boastful, sometimes plain wrong, occasionally daft and repeatedly contradictory. Patrick rated it it was amazing Aug 24, But we had to get it all out there so people could make their own decisions. Sacred Places In China. Backhouse wrote in arch Victorian style, peppering his narrative incessantly with phrases in Chinese all of which are translatedFrench, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Greek, German, and Russian, and making frequent reference to literary works that aren’t likely familiar to modern readers–fortunately and unfortunately, these are all translated and explained in decadencw and hundreds of footnotes. Decadence Mandchoue – Earnshaw Books. Since his death, however, it has been established that some of his sources were forged, though it is not clear how many or by whom. Dec 28, Andrew Galbraith rated it it was amazing Shelves: Isabel rated it liked it Jul 22, Your display name should be at least 2 characters long. Cremorne and the Later London Gardens. The Nanking Atrocity, However we had to get it all out there so people could make their own decisions. Edmund Backhouse. Backhouse was born in Darlington to a Quaker family. He inherited the baronetcy in 1918 from his father, Sir Jonathan Backhouse, a director of Backhouse's Bank, Darlington, and later of Barclays Bank. He was educated at Winchester College, and went on to Merton College, Oxford, but left without a degree, fleeing the country to escape from his creditors. [1] In 1899 he arrived in Peking (now Beijing) having learnt Chinese and other languages. He remained in China for most of his life, mainly working as a translator and intermediary for Western businesses. From around 1910 he collaborated with the journalist J O P Bland on two books about Chinese history, China Under the Empress Dowager and Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking , with Backhouse providing the source materials and Bland converting them to readable manuscripts. However doubt was soon cast on the accuracy of the work. In particular China Under the Empress Dowager was claimed to be based on so-called Diary of His Excellency Ching-Shan , which was subsequently found to be a forgery. In 1913 Backhouse began to donate many Chinese manuscripts to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, hoping to receive a professorship in return. He delivered a total of eight tons of manuscripts to the Bodleian between 1913 and 1923. The provenance of several of the manuscripts was later cast into serious doubt. Nevertheless, he donated over 17,000 items, some of which "were a real treasure", including half a dozen volumes of the rare Yongle Encyclopedia of the early 1400s. [2] "The acquisition of the Backhouse collection, one of the finest and most generous gifts in the Library's history, between 1913 and 1922, greatly enriched the Bodleian's Chinese collections." [3] During the Second World War, Beijing was occupied by the Japanese. Backhouse sought refuge in the British Legation, then in the French Hospital of St Michael, where he was befriended by Dr Reinhard Hoeppli, the Honorary Swiss Consul. Dr Hoeppli commissioned Backhouse to write his memoirs, primarily as a way of occupying him, and also as a way of giving the proud old man financial assistance without insulting his poverty. On receiving the manuscripts, Hoeppli, horrified and yet fascinated by their contents, deposited copies in three major academic libraries, with instructions that they should not be published until after his death. The manuscripts describe Backhouse's supposed sexual encounters with Oscar Wilde and the French poet Paul Verlaine, but also with women including notably the Empress Dowager Cixi of China. In 1973 the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (famous for having asserted the authenticity of the forged "Hitler diaries") read Backhouse's memoirs and described them as "pornographic," and eventually declared their contents to be figments of Backhouse's fertile imagination. The memoirs were published in 2011 as Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse , edited by the American writer Derek Sandhaus, who has said that Trevor-Roper did not consult specialists in Chinese affairs, and seems to have read only enough of the text to have been disgusted by its homosexuality. While conceding that Backhouse fabricated or imagined many of these assignations, Sandhaus finds that others are plausible or independently confirmed and reasons that Backhouse spoke Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian, the languages of the imperial household, and his account of the atmosphere and customs of the Empress Dowager's court may be more reliable than Trevor Roper allowed. [4] PDF Sugimoto PDF Sugimoto. Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, ed. Derek Sandhaus. Paul French. Uploaded by. Paul French. DÉCADENCE. Décadence Mandchoue has 34 ratings and 4 reviews. Linda said: Decadence Mandchoue, like its author, Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, is sui generis. Published now for the first time, Décadence Mandchoue, the controversial memoirs of sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, provides a unique. Author: Faeshakar Yozshuk Country: Turks & Caicos Islands Language: English (Spanish) Genre: Education Published (Last): 17 June 2015 Pages: 385 PDF File Size: 14.63 Mb ePub File Size: 19.5 Mb ISBN: 297-3-18462-468-9 Downloads: 12467 Price: Free* [ *Free Regsitration Required ] Uploader: Zolokazahn. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer’s personal information. Decadence Mandchoue – Earnshaw Books. In a certain sense, the author’s achievement would be still more extraordinary if all the colorful vivid and in their way fascinating stories had been created by the author’s imagination, especially if one remembers his age and the absence of any literary or other help. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. We appreciate your feedback. Some content supplied by. Backhouse was his antithesis and so, as bores and bullies have done down through the ages, he went for him with all guns blazing. Zungyue rated it it was amazing Nov 04, Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Alternately shocking and lyrical, it is the masterwork of a linguistic genius—a tremendous literary achievement and a sensational account of the inner workings of the Manchu dynasty in the years before its collapse in Hans-Joachim Stark rated it really liked it Jun 26, The Wallet of Kai Lung. His command of Chinese is impressive, and he clearly enjoys relating the poetic Chinese terms for both anatomy and sex acts. Trevor-Roper grabbed onto many of these random thoughts and death bed statements while writing in the knowing post-war world of the s – how hindsight is a useful gift to the prejudiced biographer looking to point score. However, by going back to the original texts we encounter their initial protector and early editor Dr.
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