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McAleavy, Henry (translator) That Chinese Woman - The Prussian and the Singing Girl; The Life Of Sai-Chin-Hua
London George Allen & Unwin 1959 First English Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Light wear & soil of yellow DJ ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 208 pages; "In the year 1900, when the disastrous Boxer Rising had collapsed before a foreign army, the Manchu court fled from Peking.... Here for the first time in English is the story of Sai-chin-hua, the beautiful young woman of the town, shared his life (Field-Marshall, Count Waldersee) in the Imperial Palace. It takes on a journey through unfamiliar places, from the flower boats of Soochow, by way of the Chinese Legations in Berlin and St. Petersburg in the 1880's, to the underworld of Shanghai and the interior of a Manchu prison."
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22.50 USD
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