China Travel Book Review: Tales of Old Peking – Arts & Entertainment
www.chinatravel.net — Explore the mysteries and treasures of prerevolutionary Beijing with Derek Sandhaus's colorful Tales of Old Peking. He delivers an informative and entertaining historical collage that includes riveting first-hand accounts dating back to the early nineteenth century as well as Western representations of the city occasionally colored by "Yellow Peril" paranoia and Orientalist fantasy.
