Interesting times -- Boats in the sky -- Mysterious Cathay draws a veil -- Pinyin or not Pinyin? -- The sometimes southern capital -- The first house -- Guarding a vital resource -- Sweeping leaves -- Three furnaces -- Reds on green -- At the Australian embassy -- Bring a frying pan -- The flying wheel -- Mark of a meteorite -- The paper trail -- A "one piece lady" -- Not the Congress of Vienna -- Call out the cavalry -- Old crocks -- Home port of the eunuch grand admiral -- Food and festivals -- Yung-lo's folly -- Unseen city -- Blood at the Green Dragon Bridge -- The centre of everything -- Chaos ascendant -- The sinking ship -- The amethyst affair -- A quiet weekend -- In splendour enthroned -- Great train journeys -- Animal crackers -- The long wait -- Close the door gently
Summary
Memoirs of China in the last years of the nationalist government, written by a former officer of the Australian embassy in China
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
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