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Jonathan Spence (1936-2021), The New York Review of Books Archive….3

Posted: December 31st, 2021 | No Comments »

A final review of Spence’s from the NYRB archives – this time of my book Midnight in Peking. I post this here not to promote the book but because a) it was previously paywalled and so many people may not have seen it and b) it is a particularly thoughtful piece that adds both to the book and to our knowledge of inter-war foreign Peking and is demi-monde….



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