China Rhyming » Blog Archive » Royal Geographical Society Hong Kong – Destination Peking – Revisiting the City – 2/3/21
Paul French Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 – 7pm-8pm – Webtalk – The event is free of charge for members. For guests or non members, the registration fee is $50. Please click here . In this talk, well-known Chinese historian, raconteur and author Paul French talks of the Chinese capital telling numerous true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From Bolsheviks and Nazis, to artists and bank robbers, to English aesthetes, to transplanted New York Bowery Balladeers, he describes that extraordinary era. He asks the major question behind so many of...