Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299572461 (1299572464)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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...