Stock ID #167714 Memoirs of Li Hung Chang. WILLIAM FRANCIS MANNIX.

Memoirs of Li Hung Chang.

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. First Edition. Stock ID #167714

Sepia photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, xvii + 298pp. Yellow cloth covered boards, a little soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and very clean. 22 x15cm.

This book when published was regarded as the genuine autobiography of the Chinese viceroy and military leader Li Hung Chang (1822-1901) but it was later discovered that it had been written by "a vagabond newspaper man in a Honolulu jail". Very interesting example of a literary forgery.

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