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The Last Days of Old China: A Witness to the End of an Era
In the waning years of the Qing dynasty, as China grappled with foreign imperialism and internal strife, a young man named Harold Acton arrived in Beijing. A budding poet and aesthete, Acton was drawn to the decaying grandeur of the...
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