Memoirs Of Li Hung Chang by Li Hung Chang and William Francis Mannix

With a story of a literary forgery by Ralph D. Paine. The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang (titled Memoirs of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang in the United Kingdom) is a book by American writer William Francis Mannix, first published in October 1913 by Houghton Mifflin Company. It is a forgery, falsely stated by Mannix to be an edited memoir of Li Hongzhang. Mannix stated that the work came from parts of Li's diary. It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom. The American Political Science Review that the work had even misled "old China hands" and Sinologists due to the "great verisimilitude" of the book. The literary journal Renditions described the work as "a classic American contribution in the field of literary hoax". Christopher L. Miller, author of The Imposters, stated that the work was an "intercultural hoax". The book was republished in 1923, with an additional piece by Ralph Delahaye Paine, titled The Story of a Literary Forgery, added to this version.

Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin
Year:	1923
Binding:	Hardback
Condition:	Fair
Description:	No DJ. No dust jacket - red cloth cover with gilded lettering. Some wear on cover, especially top & bottom of spine, and a small white stain on spine. Some tanning to page edges.

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SKU: 1595693
Location: Expensive