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Peking story : the last days of old China / David Kidd ; preface by John Lanchester.
LIBRA - Special DS777.6 .K53 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kidd, David.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social life and customs--1949-1976.
- China.
- Manners and customs.
- Communism--China.
- Communism.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 in a luminous evocation of an ancient and beautiful - but doomed - way of life.
- Contents:
- Dragons, Pink Babies, and the Consular Service 3
- White Funeral, White Socks 16
- All the Emperor's Horses 30
- Criminals, Cadres, and Cooks 39
- Red Gates and Water Devils 52
- The Sea of Wisdom 65
- Silver Pins and Blood-Red Skirts 69
- The Ancestors 92
- Lily 105
- Dogs, Mah-Jongg, and Americans 129
- Houses and People and Tables and Chairs 146
- A Gift of New Vases 168.
- ISBN:
- 1590170407
- OCLC:
- 52951340
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