Morrison Of Peking
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Damaged jacket in mylar sleeve.
At the twilight of imperial China and the dawn of a new world order, one man stood at the crossroads of history with a notebook in hand — George Ernest Morrison, the legendary Australian correspondent whose dispatches from Peking shaped Western understanding of the East for a generation. Morrison of Peking chronicles the extraordinary life of this pioneering journalist, who served as The Times of London's correspondent in China during some of the most turbulent decades of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, witnessing firsthand the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and the birth pangs of the Chinese Republic. Cyril Pearl, himself a distinguished Australian journalist and biographer, brings to life his subject with vivid authority and sharp narrative intelligence, drawing on Morrison's diaries, letters, and dispatches to construct a portrait of a man who was as complicated as the era he documented. Pearl's prose is precise yet compellingly readable, illuminating the grand sweep of Asian history through the eyes of one restless, driven observer. A biography that is equally a window into a vanished world of foreign correspondents, colonial intrigue, and revolutionary China, it leaves the reader wondering how much of the world we think we know was, in fact, shaped by men like Morrison — and the stories they chose to tell.
Author: Cyril Pearl
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Damaged jacket in mylar sleeve.
At the twilight of imperial China and the dawn of a new world order, one man stood at the crossroads of history with a notebook in hand — George Ernest Morrison, the legendary Australian correspondent whose dispatches from Peking shaped Western understanding of the East for a generation. Morrison of Peking chronicles the extraordinary life of this pioneering journalist, who served as The Times of London's correspondent in China during some of the most turbulent decades of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, witnessing firsthand the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and the birth pangs of the Chinese Republic. Cyril Pearl, himself a distinguished Australian journalist and biographer, brings to life his subject with vivid authority and sharp narrative intelligence, drawing on Morrison's diaries, letters, and dispatches to construct a portrait of a man who was as complicated as the era he documented. Pearl's prose is precise yet compellingly readable, illuminating the grand sweep of Asian history through the eyes of one restless, driven observer. A biography that is equally a window into a vanished world of foreign correspondents, colonial intrigue, and revolutionary China, it leaves the reader wondering how much of the world we think we know was, in fact, shaped by men like Morrison — and the stories they chose to tell.