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An American in China 1936-1939 : A Memoir
THOMAS Gould H. [Other titles by this author]
Stock ID: 25422
ISBN: 9780975880005
Greatrix Press 2005 1st Edition
186 photographs (174 b&w & 12 colour), 12 maps, Wade-Giles throughout. 316pp
A profusely illlustrated and rare account of a turbulent moment in Chinese history written in the 1930s by a young American businessman working for Texaco. Among the subjects treated are the fall of Tsingtao, the leisurely life of expatriates in Chungking at the end of the gunboat era and the marked contrast between the enclosed treaty-port world and the backcountry world of poor Chinese villages. The author travelled extensively, visiting, among other cities, Peking, Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, Hong Kong, Swatow, Jinan and Dairen. Many of the photographs were taken by the author at the time. An appendix is devoted to a 1930s Hong Kong newspaper interview with Peiping Lily Lee, a film actress with whom the author had a serious affair and who was accused, falsely, of spying for the Japanese. (For this item please quote stock ID 25422)
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Autobiog/Biography Foreigners in China
