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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson

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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson

作者:French 
出版社:St. Martin’s Press
出版日期:2024-11-12
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 336頁 / 20.96 x 13.67 x 2.54 cm / 普通級/ 初版
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圖書名稱:Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson

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New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China.

Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl "Win" Spencer, a US Navy aviator. From humble beginnings in Baltimore, she rose to marry a man who gave up his throne for her. But what made Wallis Spencer, Navy Wife, the woman who could become the Duchess of Windsor? The answers lie in her one-year sojourn in China.

In her memoirs, Wallis described her time in China as her "Lotus Year," referring to Homer’s Lotus Eaters, a group living in a state of dreamy forgetfulness, never to return home. Though faced with challenges, Wallis came to appreciate traditional Chinese aesthetics. China molded her in terms of her style and provided her with friendships that lasted a lifetime. But that "Lotus Year" would also later be used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment.

The British government’s supposed "China Dossier" of Wallis’s rumored amorous and immoral activities in the Far East was a damning concoction, portraying her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign agents, and unfit to marry a king. Instead, French, an award-winning China historian, reveals Wallis Warfield Spencer as a woman of tremendous courage who may have acted as a courier for the US government, undertaking dangerous undercover diplomatic missions in a China torn by civil war.

Her Lotus Year is an untold story in the colorful life of a woman too often maligned by history.

 

作者簡介

PAUL FRENCH was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times Bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He received the Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Dagger award for non-fiction. His most recent book, City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, received much praise with The Economist writing, "in Mr. French the city has its champion storyteller." Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils are currently in development for film.

 

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  • ISBN:9781250287472
  • 規格:精裝 / 336頁 / 20.96 x 13.67 x 2.54 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
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