Peking Story

The Last Days of Old China

Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Biography & Memoir
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Author: John Lanchester, David Kidd ISBN: 9781590174296
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: April 27, 2011
Imprint: NYRB Classics Language: English
Author: John Lanchester, David Kidd
ISBN: 9781590174296
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: April 27, 2011
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Language: English

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.

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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.

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