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In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian Rene Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming Rene presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."
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Rene Leys, Victor Segalen
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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- Rene Leys
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Victor Segalen
- Publisher
- Overlook Books
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0879513500
- ISBN13
- 9780879513504
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, France, French Literature, Asia, Diaries, Beijing, Year 1911
- First published
- 1922
- Original title
- René Leys
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian Rene Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming Rene presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."