Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
David Kidd, Preface by John Lanchester,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: New York Review Books Classics Series, English-language edition,Pub by New York Review Books on 04-27-2011
David Kidd, Preface by John Lanchester,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: New York Review Books Classics Series, English-language edition,Pub by New York Review Books on 04-27-2011
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781590174296 (1590174291)
Publish date: April 27th 2011
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
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...