Word has it that Chiang Kai-shek and his shaky government, long since moved to Nanking, are ready to cut a deal with Tokyo and leave Peking to its fate. Japanese troops have already occupied Manchuria and are poised to advance south. In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreign residents wait nervously for the axe to fall. January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition - and the clock is ticking down on all of it. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory librariesĬamberwell, Victoria : Penguin Group (Australia), 2011 National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia.Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China / Paul French Book Bib IDīook, Online, Online - Google Books
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