City of Lingering Splendor

A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures

By: John Blofeld

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Paperback | 15 February 2013 | Edition Number 1

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"In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished."

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Preface	p. 13
Twilight Amid Uneasy Splendour	p. 17
Drum-girls Survive Confucius	p. 30
A Solitary Eunuch and Some 'Flower-girls'	p. 49
Manchus, Lute and Vampire-fox	p. 71
A Taoist Sage, a Hermaphrodite and a Dissolute Singing-Master	p. 91
White Russian Interlude	p. 115
Peking Duck and Opium Clouds	p. 139
Singing-girls among the Pine-trees	p. 158
A Laughing Taoist and a Doubtful Confucian	p. 178
Girls, Peaks, Tombs and Hermits	p. 199
Darkness	p. 228
Dawn?	p. 254
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