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A Murder in Yunnan: The Unsolved Killing of a British Diplomat on China's Southwestern Frontier
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ISBN10: 9887674915
ISBN13: 9789887674917
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789887674917
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Who did kill British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary on the remote China-Burma frontier in 1875? It could have been agents of the Burmese king, eager to stop the British from undermining his own country's trade with China, or local Chinese, scared that Margary was spearheading a British invasion from Burma. Some suspected a plot going right back to the xenophobic Chinese governor, Cen Yuying, or perhaps Margary had simply run foul of bandits - and how was a tribute envoy of Burmese elephants involved? Against a background of colonial arrogance and cultural incomprehension, A Murder in Yunnan unpicks the complex tangle of official reports, rumor, suspicions and unreliable newspaper rants clouding the facts behind Margary's killing - an event which brought Britain and China to the brink of war.
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