Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780517567128 (0517567121)
Publish date: June 4th 1988
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 207
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...