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<p><b>January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium debs, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock ticking down on all of it.<br></b><br>In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreign residents wait nervously for the axe to fall.  Japanese troops have already occupied Manchuria and are poised to advance south.  Word has it that Chiang Kai-shek and his shaky government, long since moved to Nanking, are ready to cut a deal wi

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Author

Paul French

Publisher

Penguin Group Australia

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670080922

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Crime

Rating

3.8 / 5 (4,264 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13