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He was a son of Emil Teichmann and Edith Harbord, and younger brother of Oskar Teichman (1880, Eltham, Kent - 1959).
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Should the vast Tibetan plateau be part of China? With their distinct religious and cultural identity, should Tibetans be independent of China? Are the Chinese correct in believing that historically Tibet has always been part of China? These questions sound modern but they were debated in this book on the Tibetan life and politics around 1918 -19.
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The writer has followe cl the history of S,iB;0 -!ribetan relations from the Chinese side iih. close atte tk)n for many years, and also chanced to find ,himse fstationed in Western China when hostilities broke out between .C hinese and Tibetans on the border in 1918. The affairs of China being at that time in great disorder, and the authority of the Peking Government not extending as far as theW estern frontier province of Szechuan, it devolved upon him, in accordance with Great BH tains policy of promoting peace between China and Tibet, to offer his services as mediator between the local frontier leaders on both sides, with a view to the restoration of peace on the border pending a final settlement of the boundary question by negotiation with the Central Government of China when the latter should once more be in a position to deal with Tibetan frontier affairs. The long and arduous journeys through remote and largely unknown regions of Eastern Tibet necessitated by these frontier peace negotiations appeared to be of sufficient interest to warrant their being recorded in this book. For some people, including the writer, there are few pleasures, sports, or pastimes to compare with the interest and excitement of travelling through and surveying, however inadequately, remote regions hitherto unmapped and unexplored. Every untrodden trail invites the traveller into the unknown, every mountain range demands to be crossed to see what lies on the other side, and every unmapped river asks to be followed up to its unknown source. To the account of these journeys is prefixed an historical introduction, recording briefly the history of the Tibetan question, in other words, the story of the relations ofT ibet with India and China, her neighbours on the south and north, from early days down tb the end of the year 1918. The In case this historical introduction should appe (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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He was a son of Emil Teichmann and Edith Harbord, and younger brother of Oskar Teichman (1880, Eltham, Kent - 1959).
He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University.
At the time of his death, Sir Eric had been serving as adviser to the British Embassy at Chungking. Teichman has been described as "one of British diplomacy"s dashing characters, flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent. He went on a number of "special missions" and "fact-finding journeys" throughout Central Asia, as early as before World War I. In 1935 he travelled by truck across the Tarim basin to Kashgar, and there by pony and on foot across the Pamir and Karakoram ranges to Gilgit, and then to New Delhi.
In 1943 he began on his final foreign journey from Chongqing.
After caravaning as far as Lanzhou, his truck continued along the outer Silk Road, across the Tarim basin, and over the Pamir Mountains to New Delhi. From there he flew back to England, where a few days later, at the age of 60, he was killed.
On 3 December 1944, whilst at home at Honingham Hall, his estate in Norfolk, England, Teichman heard the sound of gunfire nearby. He went out to confront two poachers (Private George East Smith of Pittsburgh and Private Leonard South Wijpacha of Detroit) who were trespassing in the grounds of his estate.
Both intruders were American soldiers based at a nearby United States Army Air Force airfield and each was armed with an M1 carbine.
Sir Eric was killed during the confrontation, receiving a fatal gunshot wound to the head Private Smith (army serial number: 33288266) was subsequently court-martialled at Royal Air Force Attlebridge, convicted of murder and executed by hanging on the gallows at HMP Shepton Mallet on 8 May 1945 (ie VE day), despite appeals for clemency, including one from Lady Ellen Teichman. His companion, Private Wijpacha was charged with being an accessory to murder, but was not sentenced to death.
Smith"s remains are buried in grave 52, row 3 in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot East, France.
Teichman was buried in the churchyard of Street Andrew"s Church, Honingham. His grave is in the corner plot, directly in line with the now-demolished Honingham Hall.
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