Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd, John Lanchester

Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

David Kidd, John Lanchester

208 pages digital 1960

3 editions

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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