Lead Review

  • Book: A Dance with the Dragon
  • Location: Beijing (Peking)
  • Author: Julia Boyd

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Julia Boyd tells the fascinating tale of the foreign community surviving in Peking between the end of the Ching Dynasty and Mao s communist revolution. It is a great story very well told – turmoil behind, turmoil ahead and turmoil all around. –Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the BBC and former Governor of Hong Kong

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