Margaret K. St.Clair
?Hoo Lee Jing? records the final days of Legendary Old Peking? the enchanted city which, during early years of the twentieth century, became home to adventuresome and romantic souls of many nationalities. After the dislocations of World War II, many ?old China hands? returned to China with high hopes, only to realize that the Peking they loved was disintegrating, physically and spiritually, and in a few more years would be gone forever.
