The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
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William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce campaigning against the Miao in remote Guizhou province, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:9881376548
ISBN13:9789881376541
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:Blacksmith Books
Length:372 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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