CITY OF LINGERING SPLENDOUR John Blofeld - An Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures

City of Lingering Splendor is an account of author John Blofeld's three years spent in Peking in the 1930s.

This is a used travel book in average condition but scarce and cheap: corners are creased and curled from reading; book is otherwise clean with light reading wear and age; pages are clean and aging lightly; a few minor marks; not mint but a good cheap reading copy of a scarce book. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: 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.

Book Details

Code: SKU1372

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 255

Published: 1989 by Shambala, USA

ISBN: 0877735069

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