by Hugh Trevor-Roper · Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780333418079
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«Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse» is the biography written by Hugh Trevor-Roper, in paperback (Papermac, 392 pp., English).
Hugh Trevor-Roper reconstructs the life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, a scholar based in Peking whose public existence concealed a very different side. Drawing on the memoirs he left behind, the work explores his role in Chinese history and the episodes that remained hidden until his death in 1944.
This corresponds to the 1986 edition from the Papermac imprint, ISBN 9780333418079; it falls under the category of History.
For readers of historical biography and those interested in the history of China.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
