Tales of Old Peking: Inside the Walls of China's Tumultuous Capital by Derek Sandhaus

Tales of Old Peking: Inside the Walls of China's Tumultuous Capital

Derek Sandhaus

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A forbidden city for Westerners for hundreds of years, China's capital has always been viewed as one of the world's most mysterious cities. This book re-creates a sense of old Peking through a pastiche of historical snippets--stories, quotations, ...

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