Golden inches

• Autore: Service John S
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Missionaries - Biography - China; Missionaries - Biography - United States; Missionaries - China; Missionaries - United States; HISTORY / Asia / General
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Romanization -- Editor's Foreword -- Author's Foreword -- I Getting There -- II Settled in Chengtu -- III Detour for Revolution -- IV Achievement in Chengtu -- V Chungking -- VI Shanghai -- Epilogue -- Editors Epilogue -- The Members of the Family -- Glossary
• Sommario/riassunto: (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
• Titolo autorizzato: Golden Inches
• ISBN: 0-520-91122-9; 0-585-13222-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495872003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II