Introduction |
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11 | (4) |
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A note on names and spellings |
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15 | (3) |
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The Carl Crow Map of Peiping |
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18 | (3) |
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The Rooftop of the Grand Hotel de Pekin: Wallis Spencer's Peking World & Those Who Went Up on the Roof (1924) |
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21 | (20) |
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Peking's Favourite Bolshevik: Lev Karakhan (1923) |
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41 | (16) |
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An "American Girl" in Peking: Mona Monteith (1901) |
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57 | (16) |
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Two Aesthetes of Peking: Desmond Parsons & Robert Byron (1937) |
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73 | (18) |
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Peking Takedown - Two Shootouts in Old Peiping: Dewolfe Schatzel & PJ Lawless (1938) |
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91 | (22) |
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Not the Best Peking Christmas: Denton Welch (1932) |
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113 | (18) |
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"Peking is Like Paris": Isamu Noguchi (1930) |
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131 | (16) |
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The Last Days of Edmund Backhouse: Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1944) |
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147 | (18) |
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Finding Love and Mr Moto in Peking: JP Marquand & Adelaide Hooker (1935) |
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165 | (18) |
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Nazi Parties in Peking: Eugen, Helma & the Nazis of Occupied Peking (1943) |
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183 | (22) |
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The Peiping World of Peonies and Ponies: Harold Acton (1941) |
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205 | (30) |
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Who was the Real Olga? Olga Fischer-Togo (1922) |
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235 | (16) |
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The Artist and the Madonna of China: Bertha Lum (1930) |
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251 | (12) |
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The Heiress, the Prince and White Russia in Peking: Barbara Hutton & Prince Mdivani (1934) |
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263 | (18) |
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Two American Ladies in Peking: Ellen Newbold La Motte & Emily Crane Chadbourne (1919) |
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281 | (20) |
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Harry Hervey's Peking of the Imagination: Harry Hervey (1924) |
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301 | (22) |
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The Woman Who Created the Wartime Image of China in America: Martha Sawyers (1941) |
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323 | (16) |
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Drinks with the Foster Snows of Kuei Chia Chang Hutong: Edgar & Helen Foster Snow (1936) |
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339 | (21) |
Appendix: Placenames, old and new |
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360 | (3) |
Acknowledgements |
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363 | (4) |
Image credits |
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