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in 1884. He also claimed to have produced several minor booklets, one on Yunnan and another on Tonkin, and one article in the Royal Asian Society North China Branch Journal in 1891 on 'Yunnan: Its Treasures and Trade Routes'. He planned to incorporate the two booklets into what he saw as his magnum opus 'The Greater China' which unfortunately never saw the light of day.
He wrote a very long letter on the Yellow River and its appearances, published in 1887 in Indian Engineering, describing the different places where he had sailed on or had crossed it.
Mesny and Chiang Chao-ling, under noms-de-plume, produced in Shanghai in February 1898 'A New Collection of Tracts for the Times', with Mesny editing and Chiang writing the introduction. It was reviewed in the North China Daily News of 23 July 1898. Mesny and Chiang had planned some ten years earlier to publish a monthly magazine in 1887 which would seem never to have taken off.
Mesny wrote a lengthy account of his journey from Canton through Kuangsi in 1879 for the London Daily News, but 'this very influential and highly respectable journal did not consider my poor contribution sufficiently interesting to insert it in its widely read columns.'
In passing when describing a 'celebrated heroine of romance' a novelette based on facts, Mesny added, "I wrote it all out in one of my stories 'Chinese Nights' years ago, considerably different from Mayer's [version]...," but Mesny leaves us no wiser about 'the stories I wrote.'
In 1904 he published Mesny's Chinese and English Almanac though no copies appear to be available nowadays.
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In 1905 he advertised two forthcoming publications, 'Mesny's Commercial Guide' and 'Mesny's Business Directory', presumably both one-off books.
Mesny's Ranks and Honours
Although Mesny was awarded several decorations by the Chinese one, the Baturu, a Manchu military award for distinguished services rendered on the field of battle, was the award of which he was most intensely proud and which, he explained, had entitled the recipient to travelling
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in 1884. He also claimed to have produced several minor booklets, one on Yunnan and another on Tonkin, and one article in the Royal Asian Society North China Branch Journal in 1891 on Yunnan: Its Treasures and Trade Routes'. He planned to incorporate the two booklets into what he saw as his magnum opus The Greater China which unfortunately never saw the light of day.
He wrote a very long letter on the Yellow River and its appearances, published in 1887 in Indian Engineering, describing the different places where he had sailed on or had crossed it.
Mesny and Chiang Chao-ling, under noms-de-plume, produced in Shanghai in February 1898 A New Collection of Tracts for the Times, with Mesny editing and Chiang writing the introduction. It was reviewed in the North China Daily News of 23 July 1898. Mesny and Chiang had planned some ten years earlier to publish a monthly magazine in 1887 which would seem never to have taken off.
Mesny wrote a lengthy account of his journey from Canton through Kuangsi in 1879 for the London Daily News, but 'this very influential and highly respectable journal did not consider my poor contribution sufficiently interesting to insert it in its widely read columns.'
In passing when describing a 'celebrated heroine of romance' a novelette based on facts, Mesny added, "I wrote it all out in one of my stories Chinese Nights years ago, considerably different from Mayer's [version]...,' but Mesny leaves us no wiser about 'the stories I wrote.
In 1904 he published Mesny's Chinese and English Almanac though no copies appear to be available nowadays.
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In 1905 he advertised two forthcoming publications, Mesny's Commercial Guide and Mesny's Business Directory', presumably both one-off books.
Mesny's Ranks and Honours
Although Mesny was awarded several decorations by the Chinese one, the Baturu, a Manchu military award for distinguished services rendered on the field of battle, was the award of which he was most intensely proud and which, he explained, had entitled the recipient to travelling
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