Dear David Bowie fans, I think this book is included in or is the same as Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China, which is much easier to find. I'll let you know if I find out for sure.
A moving family story handled with Kidd glovesArriving in China in 1946 as a student, David Kidd witnessed Peking in its grandest splendor: "a great walled and moated medieval city" through which pulsated a life in what was considered "the world's largest empire." Within its walls lay the Forbidde...