Thirteen months in China : a subaltern Indian and the colonial world : an annotated translation of Thakur Gadadhar Singh's Chīn me terah mās / Anand A. Yang ; translated by Anand A. Yang, Kamal Sheel, and Ranjana Sheel.
2019
DS709 .G25 2019
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Thirteen months in China : a subaltern Indian and the colonial world : an annotated translation of Thakur Gadadhar Singh's Chīn me terah mās / Anand A. Yang ; translated by Anand A. Yang, Kamal Sheel, and Ranjana Sheel.
Uniform Title
Cīna meṃ teraha māsa. English
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199090846 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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DS709 .G25 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
915.16044
Summary
The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901). In 'Thirteen Months in China', Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment, recounts his experiences as he set sail along with his men for Beijing in the summer of 1900. Written shortly after his return to India in 1901, he details several aspects of China and its people he met over the course of thirteen months. Part travelogue, part history, Singh's eyewitness account offers a first-hand view of the tumultuous events of the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, as also of Chinese society, culture, politics, religion, and art and architecture, often in a comparative perspective. It is a rare historical source of an Indian subaltern's outlook on the history of China, and its customs and practices.
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Translated from Hindi.
The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901). In 'Thirteen Months in China', Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment, recounts his experiences as he set sail along with his men for Beijing in the summer of 1900. Written shortly after his return to India in 1901, he details several aspects of China and its people he met over the course of thirteen months. Part travelogue, part history, Singh's eyewitness account offers a first-hand view of the tumultuous events of the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, as also of Chinese society, culture, politics, religion, and art and architecture, often in a comparative perspective. It is a rare historical source of an Indian subaltern's outlook on the history of China, and its customs and practices.
The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901). In 'Thirteen Months in China', Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment, recounts his experiences as he set sail along with his men for Beijing in the summer of 1900. Written shortly after his return to India in 1901, he details several aspects of China and its people he met over the course of thirteen months. Part travelogue, part history, Singh's eyewitness account offers a first-hand view of the tumultuous events of the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, as also of Chinese society, culture, politics, religion, and art and architecture, often in a comparative perspective. It is a rare historical source of an Indian subaltern's outlook on the history of China, and its customs and practices.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Oxford series on India-China studies.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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