A China Reader
A China Reader

Author: Duncan McFarland

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781678066055

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A selection of essays offering keen insight into the nature of China and its social system, its internal debates, and its history. It includes several articles on China's impact on the U.S. and the efforts at growing friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.

The Day of Small Things
The Day of Small Things

Author: Anna Seward Pruitt

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781438235974

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Anna Seward Pruitt published this book in1929 after spending a long missionary career in China with her husband C.W. Pruitt.This is the story of her first years in China as only the second woman Southern Baptist Missionary to China, the first being Lottie Moon, who is mentioned about a dozen times mostly in first person accounts, in the text. Her daughter Ida Pruitt went on with Rewi Alley to become one of the few Westerners acknowledged as a friend of early Communist China.

Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass

Author: Paul French

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2009-05-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9622099823

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The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over therevolution. This book tells the story of China's foreign journalists.

Penicillin
Penicillin

Author: Robert Bud

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0199254060

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The author sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural changes across the world. He examines the drug's contributions to medicine and agriculture, and investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise.

Paper Son
Paper Son

Author: Tung Pok Chin

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781566398015

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Chin's story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man's perspective on becoming a Chinese American."--BOOK JACKET.