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Tutor to the Dragon Emperor
Frequently likened to Lawrence of Arabia, Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston was a well-travelled scholar and controversial critic of Christian missionary endeavours in China. He was tutor to the last emperor of China & played a vital role in China's history.
Lion and Dragon in Northern China
Less than a dozen years have passed since the guns of British warships first saluted the flag of their country at the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, yet it is nearly a century since the white ensign was seen there for the first time. In the summer of 1816 His Britannic Majesty's frigate Alceste, accompanied by the sloop Lyra, bound for the still mysterious and unsurveyed coasts of Korea and the Luchu Islands, sailed eastwards from the mouth of the Pei-ho along the northern coast of the province of Shantung, and on the 27th August of that year cast anchor in the harbour of "Oie-hai-oie." Had the gallant officers of the Alceste and Lyra been inspired with knowledge of future political developments...
Twilight in the Forbidden City
Johnson's account of the last years of the Chinese Qing dynasty provides a unique Western perspective on this historic period.
From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan
The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. Though nearly every part of the Eighteen Provinces has in recent years been visited and described by European travellers, my route between Tachienlu and Li-chiang was one which—so far as I am aware—no British subject had ever traversed before ...
Buddhist China
An informed 1913 account of Mahayana Buddhism and monasticism by the British administrator and scholar who tutored China's last emperor.
Confucianism and Modern China
This 1934 collection of lectures considers the tensions between ancient philosophy and the New Culture Movement in the Chinese Republic.
