Writing as if in private letters, an Englishman in Peking records the summer of 1900: the warnings, the arrival of the legation guards, the Boxer fires, the long siege of the foreign quarter, the armistice and the relief, then the looting of the capital by the victorious allies, which he describes without flattery.
A sardonic, vivid account; its attitudes toward the Chinese are those of a foreign resident in 1900. Download the free EPUB.