Two Kinds of Time

Peck, Graham

ISBN 10: 0295988525 ISBN 13: 9780295988528

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2008

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This handsomely produced reissue gives us a chance to revisit Graham Peck's slyly rollicking, incisive, and influential underground classic of reporting on wartime China. * The Chinese Historical Review * Two Kinds of Time is an extensive chronicle, a highly recommended snapshot of this period. * Midwest Book Review * Riveting and hilarious accounts of travels through WW II-era China by an American diplomat (and litterateur and artist), fascinating in their own right and all the more rewarding because of their resonance with the superficially different China of 60+ years later. -- James Fallows * The Atlantic Monthly * Of the many people who came to China in the 20th century and wrote about it, Peck remains one of the most fluid and sensitive. . . . [The book] gives a fabulous picture of this moment when America, and the West more generally, and China try to come to an understanding and singularly fail, and unfortunately set the path, for the best part of a quarter of a century, for isolation from each other before things change again in the 1960s and 1970s. -- Rana Mitter * The Browser *

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Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to China in 1935 and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in China throughout the 1940s. His memoir, Two Kinds of Time, first published in 1950, is witty and eloquent in both its words and the drawings with which it is lovingly illustrated. Long out of print in its unabridged version, this engagingly written eye-witness narrative of China on the eve of revolution remains an important source of historical and political information. Robert A. Kapp's new Introduction analyzes the book's original contribution and highlights its relevance to issues in the twenty-first century world.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0295988525
• ISBN 13: 9780295988528
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 734