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A Murder in Yunnan
The Unsolved Killing of a British Diplomat on China's Southwestern Frontier
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9789887674917
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books
- Imprint
- Blacksmith Books
- Publication date
- 6 January 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 248
- Dimensions
- 216 x 40 mm
- Language
- English
