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

[Trevor]

Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China



Publication Date: July 31, 2003
Pages: 208
Preface by John Lanchester.
Originally published in 1960.

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.