After an hour, it happened. Treason by the book by Spence, Jonathan D. Publication date 2001 Topics Zeng, Jing, 1679-1736, Yongzheng, Emperor of China, 1677-1735, Revolutionaries Publisher ... 14 day loan required to access EPUB and PDF files. No one had mentioned them to the emperor before, and he did not care to know about them now.
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Treason was constantly on the mind of the Manchu emperor of China in the early eighteenth century. They are attempting to control top government people using a subliminal messaging technology, including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Governor Xilin at last arrives, the military examinations being over. endobj 5 0 obj<>/Font<>>> International Acclaim for LONG WALK TO FREEDOM “A compelling book . Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. The distressed economic condition of the southern provinces of China, and unusual heavenly portents, confirmed them in their belief that the time was ripe for bold action. Copyright (c) 2001 by Jonathan Spence. Yet if he is a farmer, he cares for old texts, old days, and has a sense of history.
As to the reigning emperor, Yongzheng, Summer Calm expresses nothing but disgust, and for General Yue's benefit he marshals the negative arguments: the emperor under whose rule they both are living has murdered several of his brothers, both older and younger; he has plotted against his parents; he persecutes his loyal ministers, and gives his ear only to sycophants; he is greedy for material gain, despite the richness with which he lives; he is ever eager to kill others, often drinks himself into oblivion, and cannot control his sexual passions. His string of military successes includes campaigns along the Tibetan border, in Kokonor, against mountain tribes in Xining, in China's westernmost province of Gansu, and on the borders of the far southern province of Yunnan.
11 0 obj<>>> And in a follow-up report Yue poured out his sense of anguish and guilt, lambasting himself for his failures as a general and as an official, confessing to financial and administrative errors and to mistakes in judgment, repeatedly referring to his own weakening health, and finally requesting to be relieved of all his duties. The gossip proved to be part of a disinformation campaign run by rebels bent on overthrowing his dynasty. Besides, as he knows well, only a few small areas of Hunan and Hubei were affected by the bad weather, and the emperor has already sent relief to the stricken regions. He carried a stone in each hand, and shouted out for all to hear that a great upheaval was coming, that "Old Yue" would rise up with his cavalry and troops in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces to overthrow the government. But after I gave them some tough questioning, I decided to let them go." It would not be tactful in the circumstances for General Yue to order Governor Xilin to come, since the governor is a career Manchu bureaucrat, only one grade junior to General Yue, and the training ground is in the very middle of the "Manchu city" of Xi'an. In all that time, up to the present, only one scholar has "upheld the ideal," and that was the man whom the letter writer calls "The Master of the Eastern Sea.". Summary : Argues that former F.B.I. Just after noon, on August 4, a man was seen running wildly through the streets.
Also published as an ebook, which is available from Amazon, Apple, Google and all usual stockists. Zhang keeps repeating again and again through his cries of pain that his teacher lives down on the shores of the southern seas, where the borders of the provinces come together. It's amazing to think of the written dialogue that transpires between Yongzheng and Zeng Jing. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Treason is a sickness gripping society where words, actions, the people you associate with, even the books you read fall under the scrutiny of the authorities often consuming many innocents.
Shaanxi might be prosperous under General Yue, Zhang agrees, but Zhang's own home provinces of Hubei and Hunan were reeling from both floods and droughts.
Doubtless Zhang and his fellows are planning the same kind of thing, the general observes, and why on earth should he trust this group of scholars apparently playing out the roles of wandering knights-errant? Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017. Yue Zhongqi does not mention in his report the name or rank of his courier, but we know the man traveled fast, leaving Xi'an at noon on October 30 and completing the 850-mile journey to Beijing by the fifth or sixth of November. Messenger Zhang was also carrying two books when arrested, notes Yue. The general entrusts his secret report to a special courier and orders it delivered at once to the emperor in Beijing.
The principle is one, though the manifestations are many.
Click Download or Read Online button to get Treason By The Book book now. After the two officials have consulted together briefly, Yue installs the commissioner in a room adjacent to the main office, so that he can hear everything that transpires without being seen. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. It is now three in the afternoon of October 28. 10 0 obj[11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R] endobj 4 0 obj <>stream Just as there are meticulous rules for the format and presentation of secret reports, so are there similar rules for their dispatch.
And then broader ideas like what happens when a culture of fear is created amid a culture of ever shifting propaganda and counter propaganda? 12 0 obj<>>> From time to time, the “haves” tamper with information.
TREASON Part Six THE BLACK PIMPERNEL Part Seven RIVONIA Part Eight ROBBEN ISLAND: THE DARK YEARS Part Nine ROBBEN ISLAND: BEGINNING TO HOPE Part Ten TALKING WITH THE ENEMY Part Eleven FREEDOM INDEX. Summary : In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. His motives, North suggests, stemmed from a fervent hatred of Kennedy and fear that the President would eventually fire him.
The general would then find himself in the deepest trouble. Yue Zhongqi orders Zhang returned to his cell. Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2014.
Below the barbarians come the animals. Yue's poor health, however, was a real concern.
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", But the letter by this man who calls himself Summer Calm also takes the familiar litany out into new terrain: "When the rulers of the Ming dynasty lost their virtuous ways, the land of China was submerged, the barbarians took advantage of our weakness to enter, and usurped our precious throne," he writes. *
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", Zhang repeats his assertion that six provinces are ready to rise up in rebellion. Mining the archives for official, legal and literary accounts, the following parts consider how the government came to hear of traitors, the use of evidence and witnesses in trials and finally the fate of the traitor at the gallows and beyond.
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