Peking story : the last days of old China / David Kidd ; preface by John Lanchester.
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New York :
New York Review Books,
©2003.
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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Table of Contents:
- Dragons, pink babies, and the consular service
- White funeral, white socks
- All the emperor's horses
- Criminals, cadres, and cooks
- Red gates and water devils
- The sea of wisdom
- Silver pins and blood-red skirts
- The ancestors
- Lily
- Dogs, mah-jongg, and Americans
- Houses and people and tables and chairs
- A gift of new vases.