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Peking Story

2008 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Peking Story by : David Kidd

Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Moment in Peking

1942 Fiction
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Release : 1942
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Moment in Peking by : Yutang Lin

Download or read book Moment in Peking written by Yutang Lin. This book was released on 1942. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Midnight in Peking

2012-04-24 True Crime
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Release : 2012-04-24
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 380/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Midnight in Peking by : Paul French

Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.

Peking Story

2003-07-31 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2003-07-31
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Peking Story by : David Kidd

Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd. This book was released on 2003-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.

The People's Peking Man

2009-05-15 History
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Release : 2009-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The People's Peking Man by : Sigrid Schmalzer

Download or read book The People's Peking Man written by Sigrid Schmalzer. This book was released on 2009-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature. The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. By focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, The People’s Peking Man offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.

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