
Hermit of Peking
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Content
- Intro
- Prologue
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- List of Illustrations
- 1: The Wild Oats
- 2: The Scholar
- 3: The Historian
- 4: Between Two Patrons
- 5: The Benefactor - One
- 6: The Benefactor - Two
- 7: The Secret Agent
- 8: The Entrepreneur
- 9: The Diaries
- 10: The Controversy
- 11: The Recluse
- 12: Dr Hoeppli
- 13: The Memoirs - One
- 14: The Memoirs - Two
- 15: The Portrait
- Appendix: A ghost Backhouse collection
- Afterword
- Source Notes
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
- Illustrations
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- Edmund Backhouse at Oxford. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Edmund Backhouse and Princess P'u-lun. Detail from a group photograph of imperial ladies at the Brit
- Edmund Backhouse aged about forty-five. (Private collection)
- The Dowager Empress of China. (The Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Part of the Diary of Ching-shan. (British Museum)
- Lord ffrench and his household in Peking. (Private collection)
- J.O.P. Bland, William Straight and Lord ffrench, Peking, 1909. (Private collection)
- G.E. Morrison. (The Times)
- J.O.P. Bland in retirement, 1936. (Private collection)
- 'Paul' Backhouse, the Catholic convert. (Mrs Hope Danby)
- Edmund Backhouse in old age. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Edmund Backhouse on his deathbed. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
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