The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China

by George N. Kates

Book Overview

Marco Polo was the first Westerner to describe the old capital of China in its grand design, and the early Jesuits were the first to appraise its architectural values. George Kates is one of the last Westerners to take its measure. After his seven leisurely, abundant years in Peking, by the end of which the Japanese had come to occupy it, the old China had finally disintegrated under the blows of warfare and social revolution. What Kates reveals cannot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262110636
• ISBN13: 9780262110631
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.