Author: Blofeld, John

Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, this memoir of John Blofeld's life as a Westerner in China prior to the Revolution paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization. The last book of the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and Magic, it covers everything from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China's sacred mountains. This is its only English translation. 296 pp.