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Her Lotus Year: Revisiting Wallis’s Old Hutong

Posted: November 3rd, 2025 | No Comments »

Was out walking in Beijing today and wandering fairly aimlessly found myself outside Wallis Simpson’s old hutong home at #4 Shijia Hutong….

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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