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A Chinese childhood / by Chiang Yee "The Silent Traveller".
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection CC9 Ye356 940c 1952
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- Author/Creator:
- Chiang, Yee, 1903-1977.
- Series:
- Asia book
- An Asia book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chiang, Yee, 1903-1977--Childhood and youth.
- Chiang, Yee.
- Chiang, Yee, 1903-1977.
- Painters--China--Biography.
- Painters.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs--1644-1912.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The John Day Company, [1952]
- Notes:
- Title and author's name in Chinese on cover and half-title.
- "First published in England in 1940, and several times reprinted there, the book now includes a new concluding chapter, written especially for this American edition."
- "The illustrations are a feature of the book There are eight in full color ... and there are exactly 100 illustrations in pen and ink, mostly of Chinese street scenes remembered from the city and countryside of his childhood. There is also, on the front end paper ...a chart of the genealogy of the Chiang family for four generations."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 421474
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