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China Rhyming » Blog Archive » Royal Geographical Society Hong Kong – Destination Peking – Revisiting the City – 2/3/21


Paul French Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 – 7pm-8pm – Webtalk –
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In this talk, well-known Chinese historian, raconteur and author Paul French talks of the Chinese capital telling numerous true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century.
From Bolsheviks and Nazis, to artists and bank robbers, to English aesthetes, to transplanted New York Bowery Balladeers, he describes that extraordinary era. He asks the major question behind so many of these sojourners’ decisions to remain in the ancient capital – why Peking? ....

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China Rhyming » Blog Archive » RASBJ Event Reminder: "Destination Peking: Revisiting the 'Foreign Colony'" 24/2/21

China Rhyming » Blog Archive » RASBJ Event Reminder: "Destination Peking: Revisiting the 'Foreign Colony'" 24/2/21
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"Destination Peking": RASBJ Zoom talk by author Paul French


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Feb 24 19:00 pm - 20:00 pm
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WHAT: “Destination Peking: Revisiting the ‘Foreign Colony’”, an RASBJ Zoom talk by Paul French, moderated by Jeremiah Jenne and followed by QA
WHEN: Feb. 24, 2021 Wednesday 7:00-8:00 PM Beijing Standard Time
 
MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor “American girl” Mona Monteith, who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, ....

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