In Search of Old Peking
Arlington, L. C. / Lewisohn, William
In Search of Old Peking is much more than a classic guide book: it is both a painstakingly constructed portrait of one of the world's great cities in the 1930's and a lament for the end of a unique era. L.C. Arlington was an American who had served in the Customs and Postal Administrations since his arrival in China in 1879, William Lewisohn, a British Army officer turned journalist. These unlikely but happy partners had seen Peking at the pin...