Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
For the second time Lin Yutang has gone deep into wartime China and has come out with much to tell. No foreign writer, and few Chinese, could have had such a chance to see past the smoke of war, through the clouds of gossip, and beneath the heaving surface of economic and political change. And Lin Yutang, as always, is unafraid of the truth. His sense of history, joined with his spirit of eager inquiry, led him to watch for the old China along with the new. Only China presents such a study in contrasts, rich alike with romance and with hope for the future. Sitting on the ruins of a Tang palace and telling us tales of ancient times, Lin Yutang looks down at an Industrial Co-operative group working in the gully below and dreams of the China that is to be. He describes a cotton mill, all underground, three miles of whirring machines in tunnels bored beneath the protecting hills; and further west, a vast irrigation system built two thousand years ago and still working perfectly.
The Vigil of a Nation
Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
For the second time Lin Yutang has gone deep into wartime China and has come out with much to tell. No foreign writer, and few Chinese, could have had such a chance to see past the smoke of war, through the clouds of gossip, and beneath the heaving surface of economic and political change. And Lin Yutang, as always, is unafraid of the truth. His sense of history, joined with his spirit of eager inquiry, led him to watch for the old China along with the new. Only China presents such a study in contrasts, rich alike with romance and with hope for the future. Sitting on the ruins of a Tang palace and telling us tales of ancient times, Lin Yutang looks down at an Industrial Co-operative group working in the gully below and dreams of the China that is to be. He describes a cotton mill, all underground, three miles of whirring machines in tunnels bored beneath the protecting hills; and further west, a vast irrigation system built two thousand years ago and still working perfectly.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
For the second time Lin Yutang has gone deep into wartime China and has come out with much to tell. No foreign writer, and few Chinese, could have had such a chance to see past the smoke of war, through the clouds of gossip, and beneath the heaving surface of economic and political change. And Lin Yutang, as always, is unafraid of the truth. His sense of history, joined with his spirit of eager inquiry, led him to watch for the old China along with the new. Only China presents such a study in contrasts, rich alike with romance and with hope for the future. Sitting on the ruins of a Tang palace and telling us tales of ancient times, Lin Yutang looks down at an Industrial Co-operative group working in the gully below and dreams of the China that is to be. He describes a cotton mill, all underground, three miles of whirring machines in tunnels bored beneath the protecting hills; and further west, a vast irrigation system built two thousand years ago and still working perfectly.
The Vigil of a Nation
Author: Yutang Lin
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Vigil of a Nation
Author: Yutang Lin (Schriftsteller)
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Vigil of a Nation
Author: Yutang Lin
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The Vigil of a Nation. [On Conditions in China During the War with Japan.] Illustrated
Author: Yutang Lin
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Pages : 262
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Joe Dimaggio
Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300172664
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Examines the life of the baseball player in a new light, as a man who took his marriage to Marilyn Monroe very seriously long after their divorce, and had trouble finding a new role for himself during his retirement from the sport.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300172664
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Examines the life of the baseball player in a new light, as a man who took his marriage to Marilyn Monroe very seriously long after their divorce, and had trouble finding a new role for himself during his retirement from the sport.
The Nation
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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State
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Edgar Snow
Author: John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129128
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Edgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129128
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Edgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world.
The Nation
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
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