Author: Grace Service
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520074163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm."--Tracy B. Strong, New York Times Book Review "This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China."--Tiffany Brown, Times Literary Supplement
Golden Inches
Author: Grace Service
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520074163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm."--Tracy B. Strong, New York Times Book Review "This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China."--Tiffany Brown, Times Literary Supplement
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520074163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm."--Tracy B. Strong, New York Times Book Review "This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China."--Tiffany Brown, Times Literary Supplement
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
Author: Feng Jicai
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.
The United States Army in China, 1900-1938
Author: Alfred Emile Cornebise
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476619050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studies have been published of the U.S. Marines' and U.S. Navy's involvement in China, little attention has been given the Army's missions in this theater. Operations in China were a key part of the history and traditions of the 9th, 14th, 15th and 31st Regiments, whose coats of arms still feature dragons as symbols of their service there. Many who served in the 15th in China went on to impressive careers as general officers, prompting one soldier to ask "what other infantry regiment of those days can boast of such an alumni list?" Also covered is the 31st Regiments' involvement in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the prelude of the coming of World War II in Asia.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476619050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studies have been published of the U.S. Marines' and U.S. Navy's involvement in China, little attention has been given the Army's missions in this theater. Operations in China were a key part of the history and traditions of the 9th, 14th, 15th and 31st Regiments, whose coats of arms still feature dragons as symbols of their service there. Many who served in the 15th in China went on to impressive careers as general officers, prompting one soldier to ask "what other infantry regiment of those days can boast of such an alumni list?" Also covered is the 31st Regiments' involvement in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the prelude of the coming of World War II in Asia.
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London
Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Volumes for 1869-1952 include Extracts from the proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Volumes for 1869-1952 include Extracts from the proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Catalog
Author: Sears, Roebuck and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society
Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Vols. for 1846-55 include Proceedings at meetings of the society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Vols. for 1846-55 include Proceedings at meetings of the society.
Title 50 Wildlife and Fisheries Parts 600 to 659 (Revised as of October 1, 2013)
Author: Office of The Federal Register, Enhanced by IntraWEB, LLC
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
ISBN: 0160921589
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 903
Book Description
50 CFR Wildlife and Fisheries
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
ISBN: 0160921589
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 903
Book Description
50 CFR Wildlife and Fisheries
Annual Report
Author: Kansas State Agricultural College. Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Annual Report of the Experiment Station at the Kansas State Agricultural College for the Fiscal Year ... Including Bulletins ...
Author: Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description