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City of Lingering Splendor: A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures Christina Hardyment Conclusion: Occupy Generation and theAuthor Contributor(s): Blofeld, John Publisher: Shambhala Date: 5 1 2001 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the