In this old China tale like no other, Englishman Charles Mason tells of his doomed attempt to overthrow the Qing dynasty. Lawrence of Arabia famously wrote that, "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men," for they may act upon their dreams. Such a man was young Charles Mason, who, in the...