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A Photographer in Old Peking, by Hedda Morrison. #PassportToPeking p22
@pinlu Hedda Morrison. 'A Photographer in Old Peking' OUP Hong Kong 1985. #PassportToPeking
'There has never been anything to compare with the walls of Peking.' p22 #PassportToPeking
I'm reading Patrick Wright's Passport to Peking #PassportToPeking
I'm reading Max Hastings's The Korean War, as part of Pan Military Classics Series. #KoreanWar
I'm reading David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas #CloudAtlas
I'm reading Jonathan Watts's new book When a Billion Chinese Jump #BillionChinese
'By birth and ancestry I am American, ... but by sympathy and feeling, I am Chinese.' #PearlBuck said in 1933. p277 #BuryingTheBones
#PearlBuck's aim was always to maximize the nunber of her readers. p265 #BuryingTheBones
Kang Liao: #PearlBuck single-handed cursade to change the image of Chinese people in the American mind. p264 #BuryingTheBones
One of the great turns #PearlBuck did the Chinese people was to help to repel of the Chinese Exclusion Acts. p263 #BuryingTheBones
'It took two anchors to hold her.' p262 #PearlBuck #BuryingTheBones
Storytelling had been an escape for #PearlBuck since she found she could forget her trouble by reading Dickens. p257 #BuryingTheBones
#PearlBuck remained essentially too skeptical to suit doctrinaires on the Left or Right. p255 #BuryingTheBones
In the 2nd half of her life, #PearlBuck became a human 'bridge betwn the civilizations of the East and West'. p254 #BuryingTheBones
Fighting Angel, #PearlBuck's biography of her father, is probably the best book she ever wrote. p252 #BuryingTheBones
The Exile, #PearlBuck's bigrophy of her mother, was such a critical and popular success. p250 #BuryingTheBones
#PearlBuck relied heavily on Richard Walsh as an artistic conscience. p250 #BuryingTheBones
Part of A House Divided is a transcription of #PearlBuck's own response to America. p249 #BuryingTheBones
#PearlBuck divorced Lossing and married Richard Walsh in one hour. p245 #BuryingTheBones