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My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary
My Journey in Mystic China Old Pu's Travel Diary Author:John Blofeld 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 — ?... more » The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and Magic
The 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.« less
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