The Hunchbacked General: American Homer Lee and Modern China
by Chen Dan
About This Novel
Homer Lee's disability, frail body, growth experience, and specific characteristics of the times made him choose to ally with China's transformative forces, try to participate in the activities of transforming China, and make it his mission. During the Gengzi Incident, he participated in the royalist activities to help the king, and later returned to the United States to actively establish a Chinese military training school; when Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei visited the United States, Homer Li Zeng enthusiastically accompanied them. His book "The Courage of Ignorance" became a sensation and echoed in history. He participated in the formulation of the "Red Dragon Plan" and held the "Changdi Talks" with Sun Yat-sen, and later became Sun Yat-sen's military adviser. After the First Uprising in Wuchang, he accompanied Sun Yat-sen back to China. He eventually returned to the United States due to a stroke and died soon after. His life was short but full of legend. Homer Lee had an indissoluble bond with China throughout his life, but there is little research on him in China. This book is the first academic monograph on Homer Lee in China. It uses various types of materials such as archives, newspapers, anthologies, diaries, and memoirs in English, Chinese, and Japanese. From the perspective of emotional history, it attempts to use documentary analysis, comparative research, psychological analysis and other methods to discuss how Homer Lee was deeply involved in China's changes, his relationship with Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei, and Sun Yat-sen, his military views and treatises and their influence, and how he mobilized Americans to participate in China's changes. Through this book, readers can learn about the symbiosis and struggle between reformists and revolutionaries in China's modern reform process, as well as the ebb and flow of reform and revolutionary forces' influence on overseas Chinese. It will also enrich their understanding of non-governmental diplomacy and Sino-US relations to a certain extent, and deepen their understanding of Sun Yat-sen and China's reform and revolutionary history.
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