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CITY OF LINGERING SPLENDOUR
A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures, by John Blofeld, 1961
Books like this seem even more wonderful because you could easily have missed them. John Blofeld's enchanting memoir puts the case for a cruel, hierarchical civilisation that the author regards as the most beautiful that ever was. He was 22 when he came to Peking in the early 1930s with the aim of saturating himself in what remained of the...