![Dragon Tales = [jian tan wei ji] [The Silkworm; The Jazz Lady; The Philosopher; On Liping Road; Grief of Ah Nam; Pak-Ling; Dorothea; The Native Born; Peking Amber Beads; The Night of the Moonquake; Autumn Fan; If I Were King; Sonia's Hands]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/949/713/47713949.0.m.jpg)
Dragon Tales = [jian tan wei ji] [The Silkworm; The Jazz Lady; The Philosopher; On Liping Road; Grief of Ah Nam; Pak-Ling; Dorothea; The Native Born; Peking Amber Beads; The Night of the Moonquake; Autumn Fan; If I Were King; Sonia's Hands]
by Bromfield, Helen Ward
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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Shanghai : Commercial Press, Ltd., 1923., 1923. Fair. 239 pp. ; faded purple cloth with stamped decorative gold image of a dragon ; pages foxed ; probable water stain at edge of text block and back cover ; SIGNED presentation copy by Helen Ward Bromfield made in Sausalito, 21 July 1957 (!) ; Contents: The Silkworm; The Jazz Lady; The Philosopher; On Liping Road; Grief of Ah Nam; Pak-Ling; Dorothea; The Native Born; Peking Amber Beads; The Night of the Moonquake; Autumn Fan; If I Were King; Sonia's Hands ; these short stories are very thinly disguised biographical vignettes of Bromfield's friends and acquaintances done up in the style of Chinese fairy tales, showing a rarely seen emotional side of pre-war expats and the Chinese who interacted with them ; very clever ; rare ; FAIR
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- Dragon Tales = [jian tan wei ji] [The Silkworm; The Jazz Lady; The Philosopher; On Liping Road; Grief of Ah Nam; Pak-Ling; Dorothea; The Native Born; Peking Amber Beads; The Night of the Moonquake; Autumn Fan; If I Were King; Sonia's Hands]
- Author
- Bromfield, Helen Ward
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shanghai : Commercial Press, Ltd., 1923.
- Date Published
- 1923
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- chinese short stories folk lore taoist taoism mongolia character sketches biographical white russians mystics sex sexual attraction love fate kismet destiny beijing shanghai
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- Catalog 61 - China;
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