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DÉCADENCE MANDCHOUEEdmund Trelawny Backhouse (1943)Edited by Derek SandhausEdition copyright © 2011 Earnshaw BooksISBN-13: 978-988-19445-1-1
Cover portrait of Edmund Backhouse (MS. Eng. misc. d. 1226, fol. ii), image of Edmund Backhouse on his deathbed (MS. Eng. misc. d. 1225, fol. 237), and three images of the original Décadence Mandchoue manuscript (in order of appearance, MS. Eng. misc. d. 1224, fols. 32 and 400; MS. Eng. misc. d. 1226, p. 326) courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Image of Edmund Backhouse in the early nineteen-forties courtesy of Tom Cohen.
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Edmund Backhouse in his mid-forties
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDMUND BACKHOUSE IN HIS MID-FORTIES
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR
NOTES ON THE EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DÉCADENCE MANDCHOUE
DEDICATION
FOREWORD TO THE READER
INTRODUCTORY MOTTOES
PEKING INTERLUDE
THE BEGINNING OF A TIME
HIS EXCELLENCY JUNGLU
SUMMER PALACE NOCTURNE
EUNUCH DIVERSIONS
THE HAMMAM AND THE INTRUSION
UNDER THE MULBERRY BUSH
THE VAMPIRE PRINCE
THE FIRE FROM HEAVEN
LE CABINET SECRET DE LA VIE
A HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE
THE MANTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO
THE LETTER AND THE JUDGMENT
THE DEMON-RIDDEN EUNUCH
THE WHITE CLOUD TEMPLE
HER LAST AUTUMN PICNIC
THEIR MORTAL HOUR
THE DESECRATED MAUSOLEA
A RETROSPECT OF DIVINER HOURS
APPENDIX
POSTSCRIPT BY REINHARD HOEPPLI
SPECIMENS OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
THE AUTHOR IN THE EARLY NINETEEN-FORTIES
THE AUTHOR ON HIS DEATHBED
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR
IN 1939, a mysterious old man moved to the Foreign Legation Quarter of Japanese-occupied Peking. Dressed in an ankle-length robe with a long white beard and a brimless cap adorned with a large red gemstone, he could easily have been mistaken for an aging Chinese gentleman. He spoke the northern dialect beautifully and addressed the local servants with a familiarity that must have seemed shocking to the foreign residents of the Legation Quarter meeting him for the first time.
But the man was not Chinese, he was an Englishman, once one of the most famous foreigners in all of China. After y ............

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