City of Lingering Splendor A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures

Name: City of Lingering Splendor A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures
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ISBN: 9781570626371

ISBN-10: 1570626375

ISBN-13: 9781570626371

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Authors: John Blofeld

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In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.74" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Jonathan Chamberlain was brought up in Ireland and Hong Kong. After graduating in Social Anthropology at Sussex University, he returned to Hong Kong where he lived for many years as a teacher and writer.



Preface


Twilight Amid Uneasy Splendour


Drum-girls Survive Confucius


A Solitary Eunuch and Some 'Flower-girls'


Manchus, Lute and Vampire-fox


A Taoist Sage, a Hermaphrodite and a Dissolute Singing-Master


White Russian Interlude


Peking Duck and Opium Clouds


Singing-girls among the Pine-trees


A Laughing Taoist and a Doubtful Confucian


Girls, Peaks, Tombs and Hermits


Darkness


Dawn?