Les Origines de la Question du Tong-Kin.

DEPUIS, JEAN.

Verlag: Augustin Challamel., Paris., 1896

Beschreibung

xxxvi + 240pp. Original printed paper wrappers, a little soiled, text block slightly age toned at the edges, tiny chips to tail of spine but a complete copy, firm and tight. Text in French. Dupuis arrived in China in the late 1850s and settled at Hankou as an arms dealer and trader. In 1866 during the Muslim Uprising in Yunnan, Dupuis travelled to Kunming where he arranged to import arms from Hankou to support the Imperial forces. To speed these shipments up he travelled to Vietnam in 1872, and against the wishes of the Vietnamese authorities forced his way up along the Red River into Yunnan, proving that the river was a viable trade route. On his return he and fellow explorer Francis Garnier took possession of Hanoi; Garnier was later shot in a scuffle with Vietnamese forces and Dupuis was dragged out by the embarassed French government, declared bankrupt and shipped home to France. He later wrote several books about his exploits but was largely forgotten about by the time of his death in 1912. An inscription on the half-title appears to have been handwritten by Depuis: "Offert par J. Depuis a la Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Paris". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 214327

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Titel: Les Origines de la Question du Tong-Kin.

Verlag: Augustin Challamel., Paris.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: First Edition.