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Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin written by Pierre Loti and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written from Pekin during the period of foreign occupation which followed the siege of 1900.
Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019461518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin written by Pierre Loti and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the drama and devastation of the Boxer Rebellion through the eyes of celebrated French writer Pierre Loti. Myrta Leonora Jones's elegant translation captures the poetry and power of Loti's firsthand account of the siege of Peking. This book is a testament to the human struggle for freedom and highlights the precarious relationship between China and the Western world in the early 20th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789888769117
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Last Days of Pekin written by Pierre Loti and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peking, the heart of the ancient empire of China, was on its back in the year 1900, occupied by the foreign powers in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, and at the mercy of looters and exploiters. Pierre Loti, one of the most famous French writers of theage, spent nearly a year there with the French expeditionary force, and left in this book, The Last Days of Peking, an extraordinary account of the city at its moment of crisis. The writing reflects China and its culture, and the conflicting attitudes of Westerners towards the country - a weird mixture of sinophilia and sinophobia.
Author : Professor Pierre Loti
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293515204
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin written by Professor Pierre Loti and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888769124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Last Days of Pekin written by Pierre Loti and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789356702769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin written by Pierre Loti and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "The Last Days of Pekin", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406859850
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin (Illustrated Edition) written by Pierre Loti and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Loti's experiences in China first appeared in the form of letters written to the 'Figaro' from notes taken on the spot while he was serving on a French warship. Published in book form in 1902.
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Author : Pierre 1850-1923 Loti
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013806728
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin; Translated From the French of Pierre Loti [psued.] written by Pierre 1850-1923 Loti and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Pierre 1850-1923 Loti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781374173606
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)
Download or read book LAST DAYS OF PEKIN written by Pierre 1850-1923 Loti and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. 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.
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779123
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Author : Professor Pierre Loti
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313602266
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Pekin written by Professor Pierre Loti and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : David Kidd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Kidd
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170403
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 212 pages. 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.
Author : John Blofeld
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570626375
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book City of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789604273
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Adam Smith in Beijing written by Giovanni Arrighi and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to reassess radically the conventional reading of The Wealth of Nations. He examines how recent US attempts to create the first truly global empire were conceived to counter China's spectacular economic success Now America's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People's Republic of China the true winner in the US War on Terror. China may soon become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, an event that will reconfigure world trade and the global balance of power.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 014312336X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking"--OCLC
