Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking

Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking
Title page for Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (1914)
Author
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
Publication date
1914

Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking is a 1914 book edited by Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet and John Otway Percy Bland, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

The book covers a period circa 1614 to 1914.[1] Much of the book has translations of materials from Chinese authors of various backgrounds. Some of the material is stated by the editors to either probably not be of a good veracity or to be outright untrue. Stanley Hornbeck stated in a review that "They serve admirably to acquaint the reader with" aspects of the Ming and Qing dynasties.[2]

Reviewer William Churchill wrote that the Mandate of Heaven was a "central theme" of the work.[1]

Reception

Hornbeck argued that "The present work is not on the whole as consistent or convincing as was their China under the Empress Dowager.[3]

References

  • Churchill, William (1915). "Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking. (From the 16th to the 20th Century.)". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 47 (4): 295–296. doi:10.2307/201483. JSTOR 201483.
  • Hornbeck, Stanley K. (1914). "Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (from the 16th to the 20th Century)". The American Historical Review. 19 (4): 906–907.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Churchill, p. 295. The "Mandate of Heaven" is not named as such, but the source text states: "[...]make it clear that a dynasty must totter when its conduct transgresses the rules[...]"
  2. ^ Hornbeck, p. 906.
  3. ^ Hornbeck, p. 907.

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