Her lotus year: China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson
"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"...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250287472 1250287472 |
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| spelling | French, Paul 1966- Verfasser (DE-588)130470430 aut Her lotus year China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson Paul French China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson First edition New York St. Martin's Press 2024 xviii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 22 cm txt rdacontent sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Prologue: Back to the beginning -- The years before and the voyage east -- A beautiful vision -- An island amid revolutionary ferment -- The pearl of the orient -- Twenty-four hours in typhoid town -- Chance encounters in Peking -- A hutong heaven -- Jade hunting at the thieves' market -- Temple weekends -- Cinderella in the Legation Quarter -- Romance at the end of the Great Wall -- Cheering ponies and cherry brandy -- The lotus-eater's dream shattered: leaving China -- A new start "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"-- Windsor, Wallis Warfield / Duchess of / 1896-1986 / Travel / China Americans / China / Biography China / History / 1912-1928 Militaires / Conjoints / États-Unis / Biographies Chine / Histoire / 1912-1928 Biographies |
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