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Indiscreet Letters from Peking

Indiscreet Letters from Peking

Weale, B. L. Putnam
Struik, Alex

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Chinese History

ISBN10: 1480246271
ISBN13: 9781480246270
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2012
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Putnam Weale's work Indiscreet Letters from Peking is widely cited as an eyewitness account of the events during the siege of the Foreign Legations in Peking (modern day Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877?1930) was a British author who wrote about China under the pen name B. L. Putnam Weale. Lenox-Simpson was the son of Clare Lenox-Simpson, who had been in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service since 1861; he had a brother, Evelyn, a mining engineer who worked in China, and a sister, Esme.His education was at Brighton College, after which he too joined the Service. He was in China during the Boxer Rebellion and during the siege of the legations. After this, he became Brigade Interpreter for the British Expeditionary Force (he spoke 5 languages).

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