For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter
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English Year 2011
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.