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The Peking Express
James M Zimmerman
其他書名
The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
出版
Hachette UK
, 2023-04-04
主題
History / Asia / China
True Crime / Heists & Robberies
Transportation / Railroads / History
ISBN
1541701720
9781541701724
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hMaAEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this
Murder on the Orient Express
–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.
In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury—exactly what the advertisements promised. Seeing his fellow passengers, including mysterious Italian lawyer Giuseppe Musso, a confidante of Mussolini and lawyer for the opium trade, and American heiress Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., he knew it would be an unforgettable trip.
Charismatic bandit leader and populist rabble rouser Sun Mei-yao had also taken notice of the new train from Shanghai to Peking. On the night of Powell’s trip of a lifetime, Sun launched his plan to make a brazen political statement: he and a thousand fellow bandits descended on the train, capturing dozens of hostages.
Aided by local proxy authorities, the humiliated Peking government soon furiously gave chase. At the bandits’ mountain stronghold, a five-week siege began.
Brilliantly written, with new and original research,
The Peking Express
tells the incredible true story of a clash that shocked the world—becoming so celebrated it inspired several Hollywood movies—and set the course for China’s two-decade civil war.