Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (The Folio Society)

xvii, 352 pp. Introduced by Frank Dikotter. "The author's vivid chronicle of his tour of China recalls travels from the Burmese frontier to the Gobi desert, from the Yellow Sea to the edge of Tibet." CONTENTS: Introduction; The Capital; The Power Circles; Over the Yangtze; To the Nine-flower Mountain; Shanghai; To the South; Canton; Mao Slept Here; The Land of Peacocks; Through the Gorges; China's Sorrow; To the Last Gate Under Heaven; Index.