Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century is a historical book written by Edmund Backhouse in 1914. The book is a comprehensive account of the Chinese imperial court and its history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It covers the reigns of the Ming, Qing and Republican dynasties and provides detailed descriptions of the court's political and social structure, as well as the lives of its emperors,...
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