| Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China Contributor(s): Kidd, David (Author), Lanchester, John (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 1590170407 ISBN-13: 9781590170403 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. & quot; I used to hope, & quot; he writes, & quot; that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives.& quot; Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 951.05 |
| LCCN: 2003011656 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.04" W x 8.02" (0.47 lbs) 183 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. I used to hope, he writes, that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives. Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life. |