A Belgian Passage to China
Posted: October 14th, 2020 | 1 Comment »This book is apparently in English and seems to have a lot of photos…
A Belgian passage to China (1870-1920) : Belgian-Chinese historical relations (1870-1930) and the construction of the railway and the tramway based on personal documents and pictures of François Nuyens and Philippe & Adolphe Spruyt.
Have you seen “The Belgian Mandarin”, a biography of Paul Splingaerd? Splingaerd came to China in the 1860s, travelled with von Richthofen, had Li Hongzhang as his patron, and served as a magistrate at Jiuquan in Gansu for over a decade. One of his many descendants, Anne Spligaerd-Megowan, wrote this book.