China and the Manchus - Herbert Allen Giles

China and the Manchus

By Herbert Allen Giles

  • Release Date: 1935-01-01
  • Genre: Asian History

Description

It is said that no fewer than thirty thousand adherents were executed before the trouble was finally suppressed; from which statement it is easy to gather that under whatever form the White Lily Society may have been originally initiated, its activities were now of a much more serious character, and were, in fact, plainly directed against the power and authority of the Manchus.