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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Segalen, Victor; Buruma, Ian; Underwood, J. A.
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| Publisher: |
NYRB Classics
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| Date: |
7/31/2003
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian René Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming René presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."
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