A Murder in Yunnan: The Unsolved Killing of a British Diplomat on China's Southwestern Frontier
Who did kill British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary on the remote
China-Burma frontier in 1875?
It could have been agents of the Burmese king, eager to stop the British
from undermining his own country’s trade with China; or local Chinese,
scared that Margary was spearheading a British invasion from Burma. Some
suspected a plot going right back to the xenophobic Chinese governor,
Cen Yuying. Or perhaps Margary had simply run foul of bandits – and how
was a tribute envoy of Burmese elephants involved?
Against a background of colonial arrogance and cultural incomprehension,
A Murder in Yunnan unpicks the complex tangle of official reports,
rumour, suspicions and unreliable newspaper rants clouding the facts
behind Margary’s killing – an event which brought Britain and China to
the brink of war.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9789887674917 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Leffman, David | |
| PUBLISHER : Blacksmith Books | PUBLICATION DATE : January 05, 2026 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : Hong Kong | IMPRINT : Blacksmith Books |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 204 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
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