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Badlands: Penguin Special by Paul French
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Specials
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, ...Show more
Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution by FRENCH PAUL
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victors set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan. Yet, the country was to be severely disappointed. This study explores China's betrayal by the West, ...Show more
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money. In the years before the Japanese invaded, the city was a haven for outlaws from all over the world- a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made - and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notor ...Show more
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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. In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreign residents wait nervously for the axe to fall. Japanese troops ...Show more
Midnight in Peking - Out Of Print by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
As 1936 gave way to 1937, the people of Peking waited nervously for the axe to fall. The encirclement by the Japanese army was tightening daily and troop skirmishes were on the rise. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek had fled south to Nanking, where some said he was ready to cut a deal with ...Show more
The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking by Paul French
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Through portraits of eight White Russians, Americans and Europeans who lived and worked in the Badlands in the 1920s and '30s, Paul French brings the area and its era vividly to life. A small warren of narrow hutongs, the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank of the Tartar Wall, which at that time ...Show more
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