BOOK REVIEW: Midnight in Peking (Paul French, Viking)
Monday, 29 August 2011 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Peking was the name of the city of Beijing, before Mao Zedong and the Communist Party introduced the modern standard of writing to China. The name conjures up the nostalgia of old China prior to the Cultural Revolution, a puzzle of controlled chaos and a place of superstition, fraught with...
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