Two kinds of time / Graham Peck ; illustrated by the author ; new introduction by Robert A. Kapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peck, Graham, 1914- author.

Series:

Donald R. Ellegood International Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.

China.

United States--Relations--China.

United States.

China--Relations--United States.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (752 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Two Kinds of Time; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION TO THE 2008 EDITION; PART I The Problem Proposed; 1 Double Exposure; 2 Uneasy Weather; 3 The Threatening Sky; 4 Around and Around; 5 That Secret Smile; 6 Some Compartments; PART II The Edge of the Shadow; 7 Road to the North; 8 Good Intentions; 9 The Sealed Cave; 10 A City Falling Apart; 11 Aftermath; 12 Town and Country; 13 Ebb-Tide; PART III Americans and the Old Problem; 14 Different Dreams in the Same Bed; 15 The Sounding Board; 16 Who Does What to Whom, and Who Pays?; 17 The Pillar of Weakness

PART IV An Experiment with Air18 Bird's Eye; 19 People in Trees; 20 "Truth Is Our Weapon"; 21 The Enormous Day; 22 Fields for the Harvest; PART V The Time for Decision; 23 An Incident; 24 Some People; 25 The Mechanized Dragon; 26 Don't Ever Look Behind You; PART VI The Period of Results; 27 A Disaster; 28 Out of the Frying Pan

Notes:

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295801438

0295801433

OCLC:

1049171774