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The Ford of Heaven: A Cosmopolitan Childhood in Tientsin, China
Brian Power
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Description for The Ford of Heaven: A Cosmopolitan Childhood in Tientsin, China
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, illustrations, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as 'The Ford of Heaven' as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a 'concession port' in the 1920s and 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America and Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood spent in this strange and exotic place. The world that Power evokes is a microcosm of the complexity and ferment that was China before the Second World War, yet seen through ... Read more
Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as 'The Ford of Heaven' as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a 'concession port' in the 1920s and 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America and Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood spent in this strange and exotic place. The world that Power evokes is a microcosm of the complexity and ferment that was China before the Second World War, yet seen through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904955016
SKU
V9781904955016
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Brian Power
Brian Power was born in Tientsin in 1918 before moving to Britain. He is the author of The Puppet Emperor (1986), the story of the last Chinese Emperor.
Reviews for The Ford of Heaven: A Cosmopolitan Childhood in Tientsin, China
"An unusual and charming book. I warmly recommend it." Eric Newby