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City of Lingering Splendour: A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures

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 | #1554409 in Books |  John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld |  2001-05-01 |  2001-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.60 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

 | ISBN13: 9781570626371 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A past gone forever|By Scott|I don't think it is possible to go wrong with a book by John Blofeld.
For those of us who long for another time, he is the perfect guide.
No one I have read is more capable of conveying the mood he is
experiencing and transporting you there. In the 1930's there still
existed Taoist monasteries and lone wizards. He sought these ou|About the Author|John Blofeld (1913–1987) was a world-renowned scholar and writer who devoted his life to the study of Eastern religion, especially Taoism and Buddhism.

In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of l...

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