Name: Peking Story (en Inglés)
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Author: David Kidd
ISBN: 9781906011000

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Editorial

Eland Publishing Ltd

Autor

David Kidd

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

250

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781906011000

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

Peking Story (en Inglés)

David Kidd (Autor) · Eland Publishing Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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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 to the meticulous care of successive generations of owners. But it is the brooding sense of the inevitability of great change, and Kidd's sympathy with many of the goals of the revolution, which transforms this memoir into something tragically profound.