The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China by David Leffman

The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China

David Leffman

372 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally...

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