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Book

Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China

Call Number

  • 364.1523 F875 (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Books, c2012.

Physical Description

x, 260 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Summary

Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.

Notes

Map on endpapers.

Contents

  • The approaching storm
  • The body at the Fox Tower
  • The police of Peking
  • Wild dogs and diplomats
  • The investigation
  • Pamela
  • An old China hand
  • Armour factory alley
  • Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits
  • Into the Badlands
  • Of rats and men
  • Under Peking earth
  • A respectable man of influence
  • Radical chic
  • The element of fire
  • The rising sun that chills
  • Journey to the underworld
  • Chuanpan Hutong
  • The hunters
  • Invitation to a party
  • The wound that wouldn't heal
  • The writing of Midnight in Peking.

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