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MANCHU DECADENCE IBD

EDMUND BACKHOUSE
EARNSHAW BOOKS LTD
02 / 2022
9789881998286
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Sinopsis

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 ChinaâÇÖs last great ruler, the Empress Dowager TzâÇÖu Hsi.ááThe man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence 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 BackhouseâÇÖs narrative.áBackhouse was a talented sinologist, and his book provides a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of ChinaâÇÖs imperial palace, with its rampant corruption, grand conspiracies and uninhibited sexuality.ááThis book, written shortly before the authorâÇÖs death, lay for decades forgotten and unpublished in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Shocking, lyrical and highly controversial, it is the masterwork of a linguistic genius, a tremendous literary achievement as well as a sensational account of the inner workings of the Manchu court in the years before its collapse in 1911.