Day: October 18, 2019

The Peking Aesthetes – China Channel

The Peking Aesthetes – China Channel An alienated community of foreigners in interwar Peking – Jeremiah Jenne In 1935, American scholar George N. Kates settled into a courtyard home in a Peking hutongjust north of the Forbidden City.  “No electric light, no wooden floors, no heating apparatus except several cast iron stoves, and no plumbing…

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