Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking

by Paul French

An evocative account by Paul French, author of the acclaimed Midnight in Peking, of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing

Through portraits of eight White Russians, Americans, and Europeans who lived and worked in the Badlands in the 1920s and 1930s, Paul French brings the area and its era vividly to life. A small warren of narrow hutongs, the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank of the Tartar Wall, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670080993
• ISBN13: 9780670080991
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Viking China
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"