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David Kidd (1926–21 November 1996) was an American-born writer, teacher and connoisseur who devoted his life to experiencing the culture of China and Japan. In Kyoto, he was the founding director of the Oomoto School of Traditional Japanese Arts.
David Kidd has 20 books on Goodreads with 2192 ratings. David Kidd’s most popular book is Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books...
Feb 5, 2017 · Serialized by The New Yorker in 1955, collected in book form in 1961 as All the Emperor’s Horses, and republished in 1988 under the title it holds today, David Kidd’s book is an underappreciated classic in American nonfiction.
David Kidd – New York Review Books. David Kidd (1926–1996) was born in Corbin, Kentucky to a coal-mining community. He later grew up in Detroit, where his father became an executive in the automotive industry.
May 1, 2003 · David Kidd, a young American student is in Peking as the revolution comes. He marries into an illustrious but impoverished Chinese family. His wife is the daughter of the last chief justice of the Nationalist government's Supreme Court.
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David Kidd is the author of Peking Story (4.05 avg rating, 373 ratings, 54 reviews, published 1960), Històries de Pequín (2.83 avg rating, 6 ratings, 0 r...
It's the personal memories of a man (David Kidd) who married into a rich and influential Chinese family, which begin shortly after the fall of Peking to the communist regime and last approximately two years.
