Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking

Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking
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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