Moment in Peking (simplified Chinese: 京华烟云; traditional Chinese: 京華煙雲; pinyin: jīng huá yān yún) (also translated as simplified Chinese: 瞬息京华; traditional Chinese: 瞬息京華; pinyin: shùn xī jīng huá) is an historical novel originally written in English by the Chinese American author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
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