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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books Classics) by David Kidd; John Lanchester is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books Classics) about?
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life. Read more... Abstract: For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life
Who reads Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books Classics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Kidd; John Lanchester
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590170403
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (123 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14