City Lingerg Splendour

by John Blofeld

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877735069
• ISBN13: 9780877735069
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Shambhala Publications
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A rare autobiography, valuable on many levels

for those interested in the history of west meets east via Buddhism, this book will fascinate. reveals much lived detail of a lost culture of privilege and excess in pre-mao China. Kind of a 'Six Chapters of a Floating Life' from a westerner, before his florescence into a Buddhist scholar. Blofeld's other bio 'The Wheel of Life' takes up that story.