The Mercenary Mandarin
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The Mercenary Mandarin

The Mercenary Mandarin

BLACKSMITH BOOKSISBN: 9789881376541

How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

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By David Leffman
Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
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Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
Weight: 500 g
Pages: 372

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WilliamMesny jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid thechaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, hebecame a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner andan instructor in the Chinese military. After five years of fiercefighting in remote Guizhou, Mesny rose to the rank of general andused this privileged position to travel around China, writingarticles, collecting plants and advising officials.

Acknowledgments Foreword To China Blockade Running on the Yangzi 1862-63 Hankou in the Sixties 1863-68 The Miao Rebellion 1868-71 Guizhou in the Seventies 1871-77 With Gill to Burma June-November 1877 Back in Britain 1878 Across China to Turkestan 1879-81 Roaming the North: Hami to Beijing July 1881-Feb 1882 Tungking 1882-85 The Miscellany 1884-1919 Epilogue The Cast Bibliography

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