As a young attaché, Algernon Mitford wrote home from Peking in the years just after the Second Opium War, describing life inside the city walls, Chinese officials and their diplomacy, temples, markets, the Great Wall and excursions into the hills. The letters were published decades later, when he had become Lord Redesdale.
A lively, observant record of Peking by the future author of Tales of Old Japan. Download the free EPUB.