Title: Memoirs of Li Hung Chang By William Francis Mannix With the story of a literary forgery By Ralph D. Paine.
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. lxxxii, f. 1, pp. 298. Includes frontispiece portrait. Signed “[illegible] A. Laughlin” on front free endpaper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">After “The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang”, a biography of the Chinese politician, diplomat and general Li Hung Chang (1823-1901) by the hoaxer, journalist, criminal, and literary forger William Francis Mannix (d. 1920), had been exposed as a forgery, Houghton Mifflin published it again in 1923, this time as fiction. The company enlisted journalist Ralph Delahaye Paine Sr. to write a preface, entitled “The Story of a Literary Forgery.” See Bib#s 4103530/907704/Fr#s 1537-38 in this collection for the 1913 editions. See also M. K. Duhon, Journalist and Hoaxer: William Francis Mannix and the Long History of Faked News. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Master thesis, 2017.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103532" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>