The Years That Were Fat: Peking, 1933-1940

by George N. Kates

Book Overview

For seven years, from 1933 to 1940, George N. Kates--a native American--immersed himself in the inner world of Peking by living a simple and leisurely life in a traditional house inside the old Imperial City in Peking. Consciously reconstructing the lifestyle of the vanished scholar class, Kates came to know China as few other Westerners have known it.
Kates offers in this volume a celebration of a city, its buildings, its people and way of life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195827090
• ISBN13: 9780195827095
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"