How long does it take to read Moment in Peking?
a novel of contemporary Chinese life.
Moment in Peking by Yutang Lin takes about 16 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 8 minutes
A long haul
First published 1939. 880 pages, about 242,000 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Family life among the upper middle class of China from the Boxer Rebellion in 1899 to the Japanese invasion of the 1930's.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Civilization
