Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, From Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and ... Year of Great Tribulation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Weale, B. L. Putnam

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ISBN 10: 1451013167 ISBN 13: 9781451013160

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, From Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900 the Year of Great Tribulation

Of course the Peking siege has already been amply described in many volumes and much magazine litera ture. Dr. Morrison, the famous Peking correspondent of the Times, informs me that he has in his library no less than forty-three accounts in English alone. The majority Of these, however, are not as complete or en lightening as they might be; nor has the extraordinarily dramatic nature of the Warning, the Siege, and the Sack been Shown. Thus few people, outside Of a small circle in the Far East, have been able to understand from such accounts what actually occurred in Peking, or to realise the nature Of the fighting which took place. The two best accounts, Dr. Morrison's own statement and the French Minister's graphic report to his govern ment, were both written rather to fix the principal events immediately after they had occurred than to attempt to probe beneath the surface, or to deal with the strictly personal or private side. Nor did they em brace that most remarkable portion Of the Boxer year, the entire sack of Peking and the extraordinary scenes which marked this latter-day Vandalism. A veil has been habitually drawn over these little-known events, but in the narrative which follows it is boldly lifted for the first time.

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The publication of these letters, dealing with the startling events which took place in Peking during the summer and autumn of 1900, at this late date may be justified on a number of counts. In the first place, there can be but little doubt that an exact narrative from the pen of an eye-witness who saw everything, and knew exactly what was going on from day to day, and even from hour to hour, in the diplomatic world of the Chinese capital during the deplorable times when the dread Boxer movement overcast everything so much that even in England the South African War was temporarily forgotten, is of intense human interest, showing most clearly as it does, perhaps for the first time in realistic fashion, the extraordinary boideversement which overcame every one; the unpreparedness and the panic when there was really ample warning; the rivalry of the warring Legations even when they were almost in extremis, and the curious course of the whole siege itself owing to the division of counsels among the Chinese this last a state of affairs which alone saved every one from a shameful death. In the second place, this account may dispel many false ideas which still obtain in Europe and America regarding the position of various Powers in China ideas based on data which have long been declared of no value by those competent to judge.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451013167
• ISBN 13: 9781451013160
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 462