Peking Story The Last Days of Old China

Name: Peking Story The Last Days of Old China
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ISBN: 9781590170403

ISBN-10: 1590170407

ISBN-13: 9781590170403

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Kidd, John Lanchester

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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

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 4.99" wide x 7.96" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

John Lanchester was the deputy editor of the London Review of Books and the restaurant critic for the London Observer. He is the author of a second novel, Mr. Phillips, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in London.



Preface


Introduction


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