Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2012.Edition: Rev. edDescription: x, 260 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780143121008
- 9781620907870
- 1620907879
- 0143121006
- 364.152/3092 23
- HV6535.C43 F74 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259).
The approaching storm -- The body at the Fox Tower -- The police of Peking -- Wild dogs and diplomats -- The investigation -- Pamela -- An old China hand -- Armour factory alley -- Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits -- Into the Badlands -- Of rats and men -- Under Peking earth -- A respectable man of influence -- Radical chic -- The element of fire -- The rising sun that chills -- Journey to the underworld -- Chuanpan Hutong -- The hunters -- Invitation to a party -- The wound that wouldn't heal -- The writing of midnight in Peking.
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.
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