โ Scribed by Kidd, David
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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.;Dragons, pink babies, and the consular service -- White funeral, white socks -- All the emperor's horses -- Criminals, cadres, and cooks -- Red gates and water devils -- The sea of wisdom -- Silver pins and blood-red skirts -- The ancestors -- Lily -- Dogs, mah-jongg, and Americans -- Houses and people and tables and chairs -- A gift of new vases.
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