Midnight in Peking how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.
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New York :
Penguin Books,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- The approaching storm
- The body at the Fox Tower
- The police of Peking
- Wild dogs and diplomats
- The investigation
- Pamela
- An old China hand
- Armour factory alley
- Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits
- Into the Badlands
- Of rats and men
- Under Peking earth
- A respectable man of influence
- Radical chic
- The element of fire
- The rising sun that chills
- Journey to the underworld
- Chuanpan Hutong
- The hunters
- Invitation to a party
- The wound that wouldn't heal
- The writing of midnight in Peking
- Acknowledgments
- Sources.
