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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1906011001
ISBN-13
9781906011000
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
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Eland Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 2008
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
202 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.70 x 1.60 cms
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A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution. This book is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, "Peking Story" is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared. As the American son-in-law of a revered official from an ancient Chinese family, David Kidd had unqiue access to the life - their sprawling mansion, the visits to ancestral temples, the moonlit picnics, demure servants, opulent ceremonies, lavish entertainments and cherished antique heirlooms, such as the set of braziers which had never lost the heat of their original founding due to the meticulous care of successive generations of owners. But it is the brooding sense of the inevitability of great change, and Kidd's sympathy with many of the goals of the revolution, which transforms this memoir into something tragically profound.
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