Ep. 137 | Sir Edmund Backhouse (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we will begin a 3-part series covering the life of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet. He lived from 1873 to 1944, spending more than half his life in Beijing. Backhouse is best known for the various frauds he committed over the period of his life. In his last year of life, he was urged by Dr. Reinhard Hoeppli to commit the fantastical stories of his life to paper.
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| 0:56.0 | Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery again. |
| 0:58.0 | In this China History Podcast episode, we will examine part one of a special three-part series, covering the life of |
| 1:05.8 | Sir Edmon Trelawny Backhouse, Second Baronet. |
| 1:10.1 | Before I begin, and we'll start going on like I do do allow me to admit to you that prior to 2013 if I had read about Edmund Backhouse the name didn't stick with me |
| 1:19.9 | and if you further permit me to sound like the shameless name dropper that I am, one evening at Kaiser |
| 1:25.2 | Guwah's place, very late. Kaiser told me about Backhouse. And in the course of the introduction, |
| 1:31.4 | he told me about the one particular story that perhaps |
| 1:34.3 | backhouses most famous for we'll get to that in a minute I have to admit I felt a |
| 1:40.0 | little taken aback you know in the world of China history |
| 1:43.9 | podcasting I was quite well known and established yet how did I get this |
| 1:47.6 | far in life and not here of Edmund Backhouse or this totally |
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