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The only English translation of John Blofeld’s memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution• Paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization• Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, revealing a rare glimpse of Blofeld’s private Chinese side and uncensored views• The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and MagicThe reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China--from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China’s sacred mountains. Here is a vivid glimpse of “old” China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before China’s Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld’s travel diary reveals a rare, uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few westerners have been exposed.
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My Journey in Mystic China, John Blofeld
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Titel
- My Journey in Mystic China
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Blofeld
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 296
- ISBN10
- 159477157X
- ISBN13
- 9781594771576
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema
- Bewertung
- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The only English translation of John Blofeld’s memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution• Paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization• Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, revealing a rare glimpse of Blofeld’s private Chinese side and uncensored views• The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and MagicThe reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China--from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China’s sacred mountains. Here is a vivid glimpse of “old” China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before China’s Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld’s travel diary reveals a rare, uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few westerners have been exposed.