After half a century in China as missionary, translator and president of the Imperial Tungwen College, Martin surveys the country’s long history and then the upheaval of his own day: the Boxer rising, the capture of Peking, the Dowager Empress and the young Emperor, and the reforms that promised to remake the oldest and most populous of empires.
A first-hand Western witness to the last years of the Qing, written by a man who knew its officials personally. Download the free EPUB.