Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. (Chinese: 魏斐德; pinyin: Wèi Fěidé) was a prominent American scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley.
A well written and well informed book. I was unaware of the combat at San-Yuan-Li, as well as the many other pertinent political or social mechanisms that contributed to rebellion in China during the 19th century. This book did a wonderful job of explaining the social and political process that led to such rebellion.