Peking Story (24 page)
Authors: David Kidd
At the Summer Palace in 1948.
The Summer Palace in winter with the Sea of Wisdom at the top of the Hill of Ten Thousand Years.
Upper floor of my apartment in the North Gate of the Summer Palace. John Blofeld, Walter Brown, Hetta Empson, Sir William Empson, and I. 1948.
John Blofeld, Walter Brown, myself, and Hetta Empson in the Summer Palace in 1948.
Yu Garden in snow.
Aimee in the Yu garden with a friend's child.
Eastern Study Library.
The Hall of Ancient Pines in the Yu garden, stones bordering an empty pool in the foreground.
Corridors connecting Yu family buildings.
Taking tea with Aimee in the Yu garden.
This is a New York Review Book
Published by The New York Review of Books
435 Hudson, New York, NY 10014
Grateful acknowledgment is given for the use of the following photographs: the
views of the interior of the Summer Palace, from the collection of Adrian Evans,
1948; the Summer Palace in winter, from the collection of Glenn Shaw, 1913.
Nine of the stories in this book were previously published individually in
The
New Yorker
and in a book entitled
All the Emperor's Horses
by David Kidd. A
portion of “Return to Peking” first appeared in
Connoisseur
.
Cover image: Reception room in a noble house, Qing Dynasty, eighteenth century
Cover design: Katy Homans
Copyright © 1988 by David Kidd
Preface copyright © 2003 by John Lanchester
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kidd, David.
Peking story : the last days of old China / David Kidd : preface by
John Lanchester.
p. cm. â (New York review books classics)
ISBN 1-59017-040-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. China â Social life and customs â 1949-1976. 2. Communism â China.
I. Title. II. Series.
DS777.6.K53 2003
951.05 â dc21
20030011656
eISBN 978-1-59017-429-6
v1.0
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