Word: ching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real fame of Backhouse belonged not to his contemporaries but to history. The Englishman co-authoredChina Under the Empress Dowager,a unique insider's view of late 19th century Imperial politics, based on "The Diary of His Excellency Ching-Shan," a man of the court. Just before publication, Backhouse pleaded with his co-author, J.O.P. Bland, a popular British journalist working in Peking, to remove his name from the title page of the book. Bland, convinced that Backhouse's plea was just another example of his over-humility, refused. Bland was convinced his decision would be vindicated by history...
...first, Taiwan's leaders, including Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, 67, Chiang's son, hoped that Carter might stall the U.S. rapprochement with Peking. The Communist regime, they figured, would not measure up to Carter's human rights standards. But that thin hope was dashed in June, when Secretary of State Vance declared in a speech that Washington was determined to speed up the rapprochement with Peking-and did not mention Taiwan...
...then came one of the grandest scams of all. In 1910, Backhouse and J.O.P. Bland, a London Times China watcher, published China under the Empress Dowager. The memoir was based on the diary of Ching-shan, a fin de siècle Manchu courtier. Backhouse claimed to have found this trove of gossip and intelligence in its author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing...
Jill and Mo-Ching and John Rollins-Sword-in-the-Stone...
Jill and Mo-Ching-Common Grounds...