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A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
Author(s): Julia Boyd (Author)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date: 6 Mar. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781780760520
- ISBN-13: 1780760523
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Based on a treasure-trove of original sources, this book gives an enthralling insight into the expatriate community in Peking during the half-century before the triumph of Mao. Anyone who wants to understand China’s relationship with foreigners, today as well as yesterday, should read it. –Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd’s characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. –Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.
‘…with its fresh insights into this historic non-meeting of minds, [A Dance With the Dragon] appears at an opportune moment.’ –Literary Review
A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd’s characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. –Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.
‘Boyd s volume stands alone as a valuable history of our foreign predecessors, but also offers a healthy reminder of the responsibilities incumbent upon those who make China their home.’ –Asian Review of Books
A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd’s characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. –Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.
‘It is as much a glimpse of a corner of the fashionable intellectual life of Europe and America in exile as it is a guide to the vanished world of Peking itself.’ –Asian Affairs
A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd’s characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. –Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors.
