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Her Lotus Year: Anting Men Street

Posted: August 2nd, 2025 | No Comments »

Anting Men (Andingmen) Street, 1922, photographed by Donald Mennie – not that far by rickshaw from Wallis’s home on Shijia Hutong…. she would head that way to visit the Yonghegong (Lama Temple) sometimes….

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson is available everywhere in hardback, e-book and audiobook now…



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