Old China - Shanghai - Beijing - Peking - Qingdao

A vivid account written in pre-Communist, war-torn China by a young Yale graduate working for Texaco in Tsingtao, Chungking and Canton.

Illustrated with 174 black-and-white and 12 color photographs. Hardcover, 316 pages. Pub. Date: June 2005. To order, click on book cover below right or “To Order” link above. ©2005 Greatrix Press. All rights reserved.

NOTE: Only some of the images on this Web site, which is a companion project and not a duplication of the book,
are included in "An American in China."

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— JONATHAN SPENCE,
Sterling Professor of History,
Yale University

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