Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China 978-1-59017-429-6, 1590174291, 1-59017-040-7

For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter

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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
 978-1-59017-429-6, 1590174291, 1-59017-040-7

Table of contents :
Content: 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.

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