Her Lotus Year: Spring on Shijia Hutong, 1925

Spring 1925, the weather’s getting warmer and Wallis is living at #4 Shih Chia (Shijia) Hutong with Herman and Kitty Rogers. Here she’s sitting in the courtyard reading a newspaper (Peking News, Peking Daily News, Peking & Tientsin Times?) on some nice rattan furniture….. And is that an ash tray on the other chair?

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