Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

Peking story: the last days of old China

✍ David Kidd 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 New York Review Books 🌐 English ⚖ 244 KB 👁 1 views

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 l

Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

✍ Kidd, David 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 New York Review Books 🌐 English ⚖ 251 KB 👁 1 views

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 l

Midnight in Peking: how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China

✍ Paul French 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Penguin Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB 👁 1 views

The approaching storm -- The body at the Fox Tower -- The police of Peking -- Wild dogs and diplomats -- The investigation -- Pamela -- An old China hand -- Armour factory alley -- Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits -- Into the Badlands -- Of rats and men -- Under Peking earth -- A respectable man of

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

✍ French, Paul 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

**In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice?** Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through al

The Last Days of Old Jerusalem

✍ George L. Robinson 📂 Article 📅 1899 🏛 The University of Chicago Press ⚖ 901 KB

The Story Of The Last Days Of Jerusalem

✍ Church, Alfred J 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB

Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

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