British scholar John Blofeld arrived in Beijing in 1934, in his early twenties, seeking aesthetic and sensual pleasures. Nearly three decades later, he wrote “City of Lingering Splendour,” recounting an…
British scholar John Blofeld arrived in Beijing in 1934, in his early twenties, seeking aesthetic and sensual pleasures. Nearly three decades later, he wrote “City of Lingering Splendour,” recounting an “Old Peking” saturated in the final vestiges of its luxurious imperial past…
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