Her Lotus Year: Wallis & Eddie Mills in Peking

Here’s Wallis by the lido at the American Legation in with Eddie Mills. She met Mills, an American for the Salt Gabelle (tax agency) in Peking, Tientsin in December 1924. He helped her with her luggage on the train to Peking. He also gave her a useful piece of advice gleaned from his years living in China, ‘The trick about living in China is to recognise the inconvenient as the normal.’

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