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The Capital Smoke and Mirrors: All 2 Books
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The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing is a novel written in English by Lin Yutang during his stay in Paris in the late 1930s, originally titled MomentinPeking, which tells the story of the three great families of Zeng, Yao, and Niu in Peking from the Boxer Rebellion of 1901 to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression over a period of more than thirty years. The whole book has a grand structure and intertwined clues, providing a panoramic view of the drastic and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society...