ISBN10: 9622090109, ISBN13: 9789622090101, [publisher: Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong] Hardcover First Edition Treatise on a critical and tumultuous period in China's history, during the early years of the 20th century as the country underwent its revolutionary transition from the corrupt and dying Qing monarchy to a republic. Traces the fascinating personal and political interrelationship between Britain's chief representative in Beijing, Sir John Jordan, and Yuan Shi-k'ai, whose attempt to re-establish himself as China's monarch between 1912 and 1916 ended tragically, with Yuan's death. 168 pp., notes, bibliography, glossary of names, index. (Four pages of endnotes and 4 of bibliography printed blank, a defect in all copies, per publisher information. Main body of text unaffected.) Size: 22.5 x 14.5 cm
[Trinity East, NL, Canada] [Publication Year: 1978]
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Hong Kong University Press, Date: 1978-08-29. Hardcover. Used: Good. 1978. Hong Kong University Press ISBN 9622090109 9789622090101 [US]

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