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British oriental scholar, Sinologist, Quaker, and linguist. Accused of fabricating parts of a major work of his, China Under the Empress Dowager. Grandson to Edmund Backhouse.
Works
- Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), with John Otway Percy Bland (1914) — (start transcription)
- China Under the Empress Dowager, with John Otway Percy Bland (1914) — (transcription project)
- "Secret Annals of the Manchu Court; I. The Story of the Precious Pearl" with in The Atlantic Monthly, 112 (November, 1913), p. 629 (external scan)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1944, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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