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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. Published now for the first time, the controversial memoirs of Sinologist Sir…
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This is a controversial insider’s view of the tottering Ching court. But how much is true, and how much can be ascribed to Backhouse’s clearly well-developed imagination? If not, how did Backhouse, a self-proclaimed lover of the dowager empress Cixi, uncover such intimate and florid detail?
From Chris' list on The best books showing China from an angle that Westerners don’t normally see.
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