China In Another Time
ISBN: 978-15-7869-018-3
Format: 20.3x25.4cm
Liczba stron: 248
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2019 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<p>The daughter of a missionary doctor, Claire Malcolm Lintilhac was born in China,<br />
became a nurse there, and lived and worked through China’s whole momentous first<br />
half of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the world’s<br />
newest yet oldest superpower, China in Another Time — with over 160 photos and<br />
drawings — is Claire’s own story.</p><p>A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades that<br />
made today’s China. Born in China’s interior as the daughter of a Canadian medical missionary, Claire<br />
Malcolm Lintilhac learned fluent Chinese, became a traveling nurse and lived through<br />
the whole momentous first half of China’s 20th century. After her family barely escaped<br />
the bloody Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Claire witnessed firsthand the years of civil war that<br />
followed China’s short-lived Nationalist Revolution of 1911. In the 1930s — as Claire<br />
cared for patients both Western and Chinese, fell in love and started a family — she<br />
survived Japan’s two horrific attacks on Shanghai, and her British husband Lin was<br />
interned by the Japanese in a Shanghai camp during World War II. In 1949 Claire<br />
watched as China’s greatest city fell to the Communist Party, and in 1950 she, Lin and<br />
their son Philip finally left the country they loved. Illustrated with over 160 photos and<br />
drawings, China in Another Time is Claire’s vividly personal account of China’s struggle<br />
to become its own modern nation, from the last imperial dynasty to the advent of<br />
Communist rule. With an introduction by eminent China scholar Nicholas Clifford,<br />
professor emeritus at Middlebury College.</p>
