The Fight for the Republic in China

Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930), who wrote under the pseudonym Putnam Weale was a novelist and a journalist. He was one of the well-known figures who worked for the Customs in China. His works include: Indiscreet Letters from Peking (1906), The Fight for the Republic in China (1917), Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy (1920), The Port of Fragrance (1930), Manchu and Muscovite and The Re-Shaping of the Far East. "This volume tells everything that the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese Question. It is sufficiently exhaustive to show very clearly the new forces at work, and to bring some realisation of the great gulf which separates the thinking classes of to-day from the men of a few years ago; whilst, at the same time, it is sufficiently condensed not to overwhelm the reader with too great a multitude of facts."