Dedicated to the Harvard teacher Charles Townsend Copeland and opening with a nod to Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, this 1909 tale follows Heywood, a young foreigner in China, who creeps into the night ritual of a secret society and is drawn into its intrigues and dangers in the treaty-port world.
A colourful adventure of the East whose view of China is that of 1909. Download the free EPUB.