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A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony

Autor Julia Boyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2019
With its fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking attracted characters as diverse as Reginald Johnston (tutor to the last emperor), Bertrand Russell, Pierre Loti, Rabrindranath Tagore, Sven Hedin, Peter Fleming, Wallis Simpson and Cecil Lewis. The last great capital to remain untouched by the modern world, Peking both entranced and horrified its foreign residents. Ignoring the poverty outside their gates, they danced, played and squabbled among themselves, oblivious to the great political events that were to shape modern China unfolding around them. This is a dazzling portrait of an eclectic foreign community and of China itself.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755601370
ISBN-10: 0755601378
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Julia Boyd is the author of 'Hannah Riddell, An Englishwoman in Japan' and 'The Excellent Doctor Blackwell'. She has travelled frequently to China.