Scottish Mandarin:The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston
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- Categories:Historical Figures
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:October,2012
- Pages:332
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- Size:156mm×234mm
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Review
“Superbly researched, Shiona Airlie’s biography reveals the extraordinary character behind the polished exterior of the colonial servant who became tutor to the Last Emperor. A brilliant sinologist, a student of Chinese Buddhism who scorned missionaries, Reginald Johnston was also a romantic Scot and an unwilling professor whose love life may surprise many.” —Frances Wood, author of No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843–1943
“Reginald Johnston is known to most people merely as the tutor to China’s last emperor, but there was much more to him than this. Through detailed research into primary sources, Shiona Airlie has created an eminently readable account of this complex, often misunderstood, but brilliant man of many parts, and of his outstanding achievements.” —Robert Nield, author of The China Coast: Trade and the First Treaty Ports
Description
Granted unique access to Johnston’s extensive personal papers, once thought to be lost, Shiona Airlie tells the life of a complex and sensitive character whose career made a deep impression on 20th-century China.