Böcker av Sir E Backhouse

A serious and valuable account of the Chinese court, covering the Ming and Manchu dynasties with such chapter titles as: A Chinese Haroun Al RaschidAn Infamous EunuchLi Tzu-Ch'eng's Rebellion and the Fall of PekingWu San-KueiThe Manchu Dynasty EstablishedThe Mings at NankingThe Sack of Yang Chou-FuThe Last of The MingsEmperor Shun ChihK'ang Hsi as a FatherTribulations of Yung ChengYung Cheng Dispenses JusticeHis Majesty Chi'ien LungDownfall of Ho ShenChia Ch'ing: The Beginning of The EndTao Kukang. The Impact of the WestHsien Feng and T'ung Chih: The Facile DescentSorrows of His Majesty Kuang HsuMemoirs of the Boxer Year (1900)Concerning the Old BuddhaThe Court Under the Last RegencyConclusionIndex