The Mercenary Mandarin - Leffman, David
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William Mesny jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and an instructor in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce fighting in remote Guizhou, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel around China, writing articles, collecting plants and advising officials.

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William Mesny jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and an instructor in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce fighting in remote Guizhou, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel around China, writing articles, collecting plants and advising officials.
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David Leffman was born and raised in the UK. He first visited China in 1985 and has since authored travel guidebooks to China, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia and Iceland for publishers such as DK and Rough Guides. The Mercenary Mandarin is the result of 15 years spent in archives and on the road, following Mesny's trail around China's backblocks.