Eastern Starlight A British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s: Volume 2 by Jea

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Eastern Starlight A British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s by Jean Elder With Reg Mitchell

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Description Set against the backdrop of Japan's seizure of China's entire northeast, Eastern Starlight, a British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s is the second of a trilogy by Jean Elder, born in Hwangkutun village near Mukden, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, in 1912, year of the fall of the last Manchu Dynasty. The story continues as Jean and her mother survive the fearsome night assault on Mukden by the Imperial Japanese Army in September 1931, but are forced by the invaders to leave Manchuria.Jean accepts her brother Jim's offer to settle in Peking, intellectual crossroads and cultural oasis of the Orient, safe from China's expanding civil war and continuing clashes with the Japanese in Jehol. We meet her charismatic friends in L'Hotel de Pekin--Italian Count Galeazzo Ciano and his wife, Edda, daughter of Mussolini; Julius Barr, famed American aviator; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; William Henry Donald, referred to by historians as Donald of China; and the acclaimed March of Time photographer "Newsreel" Wong--and become a part of her intriguing social life with them.Chang Hsiao Liang (the Young Marshal), close to Jean and the Elder family, must take a self-imposed year-long exile from China to save face, after which he will be forgiven for the loss of Manchuria. Jim departs with the Marshal for Europe, and during her own leave of absence, Jean shares with us her straight-from-the-heart impressions of America during the Depression and her fascinating life at sea aboard the great liners of the era including Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. She must defy cannon-firing brigands and snipers along the Yangtze River in order to reunite with Jim in Hupei Province, where the Marshal has reestablished command of his troops.Jean provides an unvarnished insight into the "anything goes" world of China in the 1930s including her harrowing escape in the dark from a pirate vessel while aboard a passenger steamer in the Yellow Sea. In Hankow, she is a frequent guest of the US Navy aboard USS Luzon (PR-7) and USS Tutuila (PR-4) during the swashbuckling days of inshore gunboat diplomacy in scenes much like those portrayed in the movie, Sand Pebbles. After a whirlwind courtship, she marries the love of her life, US Vice Consul Reginald Mitchell.This is the story of a British girl who grew up in China in the hands of an Amah with the good fortune of gaining dual perspectives of life, Chinese and Western, forever loyal to family and friends, compassionate toward others, true to her values, and humble as a person.

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  • ISBN 1685269141
  • ISBN-13 9781685269142
  • Title Eastern Starlight A British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s
  • Author Jean Elder With Reg Mitchell
  • Format Paperback
  • Year 2023
  • Pages 276
  • Publisher Covenant Books
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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9781685269142
  • ISBN: 9781685269142
  • Book Title: Eastern Starlight a British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s : Volume 2
  • Item Length: 9in
  • Publisher: Covenant Books
  • Publication Year: 2023
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Item Height: 0.8in
  • Author: Jean Elder with Reg Mitchell
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Topic: Personal Memoirs
  • Item Width: 6in
  • Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
  • Number of Pages: 276 Pages

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