The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
“By now it had resumed its rightful position as a citadel of wickedness, where monied Europeans rode in American cars past the poverty of market-choked streets and alleys zigzagged with lanterns and washing lines. Shanghai police on their way to quell rioting factory workers would rumble down neon-washed avenues along which platoons of prostitutes offered their wares outside posh hotels while fireworks celebrated the opening of yet another nightclub.
One such nightclub bore a neon sign that flashed the word IMOHTEP’S. Two Chinese doorman in full livery waited to welcome wealthy visitors to an elegant interior invoking an art moderne Egyptian fantasy. Even the Asian barmaids invoked sensual exotic dreams, their lovely flesh covered with wisps of cloth but mostly body paint.
A bartender had compared the nubile young women wearing black blunt-cut bangs to Cleopatra herself, but Jonathan Carnahan—the proprietor of Shanghai’s latest favorite nightclub among the elite tourist trade—h...ad in fact patterned the barmaids’ distinctive look after that of another ancient Egyptian princess: Anck-su-namun.MoreLess
One such nightclub bore a neon sign that flashed the word IMOHTEP’S. Two Chinese doorman in full livery waited to welcome wealthy visitors to an elegant interior invoking an art moderne Egyptian fantasy. Even the Asian barmaids invoked sensual exotic dreams, their lovely flesh covered with wisps of cloth but mostly body paint.
A bartender had compared the nubile young women wearing black blunt-cut bangs to Cleopatra herself, but Jonathan Carnahan—the proprietor of Shanghai’s latest favorite nightclub among the elite tourist trade—h...ad in fact patterned the barmaids’ distinctive look after that of another ancient Egyptian princess: Anck-su-namun.MoreLess
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