The Mercenary Mandarin. How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China.
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2016. Paperback. William Mesny.ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner..... More
