The Life and Adventures of Morrison of China

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MORRISON’S WAR

With the exception of the ageing Henri de Blowitz in Paris,1 ‘Chinese’ Morrison was now the most famous Times correspondent in the field and, after Nellie Melba, the most recognisable Australian on the international stage. He was also handsome and, as Polly Condit Smith and other survivors of the Siege of the Legations would testify, incredibly brave.

Yet it was a source of concern to him that he had never developed a lasting relationship with any woman except his mother, Rebecca. He was, he admitted to his diary, ‘Oppressed by invincible shyness’. And he asked himself: ‘Why is it that I can never overcome this?’

There seemed to be no reason for it. Willard Straight, an American interpreter in the Imperial Customs Service,

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Table of contents

Table of contents

  • Title Page iii
  • Contents vi
  • Prologue - Peking 1900 viii
  • Part I - 1862–1894 1
  • 1- Shoe Leather 3
  • 2- The Noblest Profession 19
  • 3- Exposing the Slavers 29
  • 4- Following Burke and Wills 44
  • 5- New Guinea Disaster 57
  • 6- Doctor's Orders 76
  • 7- Eastern Promise 88
  • 8- A Pleasant Journey 99
  • Part II - 1895–1911 123
  • 9- Moberly's Man 125
  • 10- Secret Agent 136
  • 11- Chinese Puzzle 154
  • 12- Dragon Empress 179
  • 13- The Boxer Uprising 1900 201
  • 14- Rescue and Retribution 234
  • 15- Morrison's War 255
  • 16- The Northcliffe Touch 275
  • 17- Revolution! 302
  • Part III - 1912–1920 323
  • 18- China's Champion 325
  • 19- The Entwined Heart 342
  • 20- Perfidious Nippon 364
  • 21- Dynasty of Dunces 383
  • 22- Sentimental Journey 406
  • 23- The Final Struggle 419
  • Epilogue - The Noble Professional 435
  • Notes 439
  • Sources and Bibliography 449
  • Index 454
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