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Author Gadādharasiṃha, 1869-1920, author.

Title 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
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford series on India-China studies
Oxford series on India-China studies.
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
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2017
Translated from Hindi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2019)
Subject Gadādharasiṃha, 1869-1920 -- Travel -- China
SUBJECT China Relief Expedition (1900-1901) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98056465
China Relief Expedition (1900-1901) fast
Subject Travel
SUBJECT China -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024006
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives, East Indian
Subject China
Genre/Form Personal narratives
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Yang, Anand A., editor
Sheel, Kamal, 1950- translator.
Sheel, Ranjana, translator
ISBN 9780199090846
019909084X
Other Titles Cīna meṃ teraha māsa. English