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No foreign bones in China : memoirs of imperialism and its ending / Peter Stursberg.
Van Pelt Library PN4913.S79 A3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stursberg, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stursberg, Peter--Family.
- Stursberg, Peter.
- History.
- Families.
- China--History--19th century--Biography.
- China.
- China--History--20th century--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 216 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Memoirs of imperialism and its ending
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Outward Bound for Cathay, 1834 1
- Chapter 2 Captain of the King of Burma's Yacht 17
- Chapter 3 Marine Surveyor at Pagoda Anchorage 33
- Chapter 4 My Japanese Grandmother 47
- Chapter 5 Colonial Life in China, 1906 63
- Chapter 6 Peking Dances and the 1911 Revolution 79
- Chapter 7 My German Grandfather 97
- Chapter 8 Marriage Colonial Style in Foochow 113
- Chapter 9 The Great War and Shanghai 125
- Chapter 10 Commissioner's House in Old Honan 139
- Chapter 11 The 1927 Step Toward Imperial Oblivion 157
- Chapter 12 Reprise: No Foreign Bones in China 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 088864387X
- OCLC:
- 49352714
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