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Wilson Andrew

The 'Ever-Victorious army': a History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt-Col C.G. Gordon, CB, RE, and of the Suppression of the Tai-Ping Rebellion

Elibron Classics Reprint of the 1868 William Blackwood Edition,

30,00 €

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(Roma, Italia)

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Autor
Wilson Andrew
Editores
Elibron Classics Reprint of the 1868 William Blackwood Edition
Materia
CINA China Chine
Descripción
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Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Como nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición
No

Descripción

8vo, br. ed. Journalist and traveller Andrew Wilson (1831-1881) was born in India to colonial missionaries. Educated in Europe, he later edited the China Mail in Hong Kong, and the Bombay Times. This, his best known work, was published in 1868, and recounts the suppression of the Taiping uprising in 1863-1864 by Colonel Charles G. ('Chinese') Gordon, leading a small multinational force. The Taiping rebellion against the Qing dynasty lasted from 1850 to 1864, and it is estimated that some 20 million people died as a result. Wilson was given access to Gordon's journals to write the book. Wilson was very pro-Chinese, and was quite critical of British colonial policy towards China. Despite this bias, the work contains much fascinating information on nineteenth-century China, and sheds light on the early career of one of Britain's greatest Victorian military heroes.