The Men Who Ran the Peking Legation Quarter, 1929

Posted: June 14th, 2024 | No Comments »

A photo of perhaps the most influential men in the Peking Legation Quarter in 1929 – here gathered on the steps of the Legation of the Netherlands…

Left to right – Sir Miles Lampson (UK), the Count de Martel (France, and also co author of the fantastically gossipy Silhouettes of Peking), Willems Jacobus Oudendijk (Holland), John Van Antwerp MacMurray (who was about to resign over a dispute regarding the KMT with the State Department in Washington) and Daniele Vare (Italy and the author of course of The Maker of Heavenly Trousers and other great Peking-set novels)…

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