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Peking Story
David Kidd
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Description for Peking Story
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906011000
SKU
V9781906011000
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Reviews for Peking Story
Peking Story is a poignantly written requiem for Old Peking
the city whose death is symbolic of the death of China's ancient culture and civilization. Kidd's story wavers between fact and fiction. It seems too good to be true, like the perfectly woven family sagas common to the great Chinese novels and Victorian fiction. But the climax . . ... Read more
the city whose death is symbolic of the death of China's ancient culture and civilization. Kidd's story wavers between fact and fiction. It seems too good to be true, like the perfectly woven family sagas common to the great Chinese novels and Victorian fiction. But the climax . . ... Read more