9781906011000
A01=David Kidd
Author_David Kidd
Beijing
Casemate
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Chinese Revolution
Communist Revolution
Cultural Revolution
David Kidd
Eland Publishing
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Memoir
Peking
Peking Story
Travel Literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781906011000
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
