num_pages: 316
description: The distinguished Oxford professor of modern history presents evidence that Chinese scholar and author Sir Edmund Backhouse, long thought to have lived as a virtual hermit in Peking, was in reality a forger, trickster, and eccentric
language: English
title: The Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse
titlecomplete: The Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse
characters: Edmund Backhouse
genres: Biography, China, History, Espionage, Asia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 177
publisher: Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.