The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking by Paul French, Jason Pym

The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking

Paul French, Jason Pym

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nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, misfits and the odd bohemian, it was a place of opium dens, divebars, brothels, flophouses and caba...

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