Cathay: a journey in search of old ChinaAn exquisitely realized account of one man's pilgrimage in China's forbidden past. For Fergus Bordewich, entering the labyrinth that is China and finding vestiges of a rapidly vanishing world was the challenge of a lifetime, and his eye-opening revelations offer a China to tantalize the eye and the imagination. |
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CHAPTER THREE Vibrato | 49 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Mountain God | 143 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Ten Thousand Things | 167 |
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