Walk into Chinese Culture Series - The Last Days in Beijing

Author: Pierre
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is aliterary work compiled from the private diaries of the French writer Lüdi, and is one of the "Getting Closer to China" cultural translation series edited by Qian Linsen. The book consists of seven chapters, faithfully recording all aspects around Beijing during the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China in 1900-1901. The author, as if carrying a black and white camera, meticulously captures everything he saw and experienced along his journey in China, especially upon entering Beijing. The book is filled with a monochromatic and dim palette, occasionally interwoven with vivid colors of flashbacks, presenting the decline and disappearance of the beauty of China. It gradually deconstructs and reconstructs the mysterious and magical China in the eyes of Westerners, leaving a profound impact. Although the book tends to glorify the French invading forces, it also condemns the inhumanity and destructive nature of war.