China In Another Time - by Claire Malcolm Lintilhac (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The daughter of a missionary doctor, Lintilhac was born in China, became a nurse there, and lived and worked through China's whole momentous first half of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the world's newest yet oldest superpower, <i>China in Another Time<i>--with over 160 photos and drawings--is her story.her story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The daughter of a missionary doctor, Claire Malcolm Lintilhac was born in China, <br /> became a nurse there, and lived and worked through China's whole momentous first<br /> half of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the world's<br /> newest yet oldest superpower, China in Another Time -- with over 160 photos and<br /> drawings -- is Claire's own story.</p><p>A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades that<br /> made today's China. Born in China's interior as the daughter of a Canadian medical missionary, Claire<br /> Malcolm Lintilhac learned fluent Chinese, became a traveling nurse and lived through<br /> the whole momentous first half of China's 20th century. After her family barely escaped<br /> the bloody Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Claire witnessed firsthand the years of civil war that<br /> followed China's short-lived Nationalist Revolution of 1911. In the 1930s -- as Claire<br /> cared for patients both Western and Chinese, fell in love and started a family -- she<br /> survived Japan's two horrific attacks on Shanghai, and her British husband Lin was<br /> interned by the Japanese in a Shanghai camp during World War II. In 1949 Claire<br /> watched as China's greatest city fell to the Communist Party, and in 1950 she, Lin and<br /> their son Philip finally left the country they loved. Illustrated with over 160 photos and<br /> drawings, China in Another Time is Claire's vividly personal account of China's struggle<br /> to become its own modern nation, from the last imperial dynasty to the advent of<br /> Communist rule. With an introduction by eminent China scholar Nicholas Clifford, <br /> professor emeritus at Middlebury College.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In this posthumously published illustrated memoir, Lintilhac, the daughter of an American missionary doctor, endearingly tells of her life as a rural nurse in China. Born in a remote village in North China during the final days of the Qing Dynasty in 1899, Lintilhac spent her life in small communities, working as a traveling nurse or in hospitals before moving to Vermont in 1958. During her time in China, she witnessed the Boxer Rebellion, a decade of warlords, and the country's transition from a dynastic nation to an early incarnation as a Communist country. She kept copious notes, and her son, Phillip Linthilac, used those along with excerpts from hours of interviews (some of which readers can listen to via the book's companion website) to assemble this remarkable tale. She shares copious stories and photos of events she witnessed: treating patients during a typhoon, making water drinkable pre-industrialization, the custom of foot binding, the Battle of Shanghai, and the rise of Mao. Her view of a crucial period of transition is truly a marvel to behold. This impressive work is sure to add depth and color to the reader's understanding of early 20th-century China. <strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></p><p>"Lintilhac's fascinating, masterfully edited collection of vignettes, sidebars and archival photos is as intimate as a diary and as endearing as a scrapbook, allowing us to experience China through the lens of a privileged Western girl-becomes-nurse-midwife who was born in rural China as it convulsed in revolution to cast off foreign empire-builders. A wonderful, detailed addition to the genre of memoirs chronicling the birth of modern China."</p><p><strong>Helen Zia</strong>, <em> </em>author of<em> Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution</em></p><p>"How do we gain some perspective on China after four decades of the fastest economic growth in world history? One way would be to enjoy this engaging account of one intrepid woman's half-century of life there in the early 20th century. From childhood through becoming a nurse in a society where political turmoil and social insecurity created challenge and misfortune for so many, the author's memories allow the reader to touch the texture of people's daily lives. This is a moving introduction to the world the Chinese were fortunate enough to leave far behind."</p><p><strong>R. Bin Wong</strong>, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA, and author of <em>China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience</em></p><p>"This deeply human and moving book immerses us in a time that seems much more than just a generation away; in a culture and way of life that has disappeared forever; and in the dangerous and courageous lives of service that people not so very different from us were brave enough to pursue. How fortunate that Claire's observations and photographs have survived to remind us of that recent yet irretrievable past." </p><p><strong>Andrew J. Nathan</strong>, co-author of <em>China's New Rulers: The Secret Files</em> and <em>The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress</em>, and author of <em>China's Transition</em>, <em>China's Crisis, </em> and <em>Chinese Democracy</em></p><p>"This memoir of a Western woman who was born in China in the time of the Boxers and lived there throughout most of the next half-century, part of it as a traveling nurse, offers a fascinating window on a country undergoing a series of dramatic transformations. </p><p><strong>Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom</strong>, co-author of <em>China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know</em></p><p> </p><br>
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