China In Another Time

The daughter of a missionary doctor, Claire Malcolm Lintilhac was born in Chinabecame a nurse there, and lived and worked through China's whole momentous firsthalf of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the world'snewest yet oldest superpower, China in Another Time - with over 160 photos anddrawings - is Claire's own story.A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades thatmade today's China. Born in China's interior as the daughter of a Canadian medical missionary, ClaireMalcolm Lintilhac learned fluent Chinese, became a traveling nurse and lived throughthe whole momentous first half of China's 20th century. After her family barely escapedthe bloody Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Claire witnessed firsthand the years of civil war thatfollowed China's short-lived Nationalist Revolution of 1911. In the 1930s - as Clairecared for patients both Western and Chinese, fell in love and started a family - shesurvived Japan's two horrific attacks on Shanghai, and her British husband Lin wasinterned by the Japanese in a Shanghai camp during World War II. In 1949 Clairewatched as China's greatest city fell to the Communist Party, and in 1950 she, Lin andtheir son Philip finally left the country they loved. Illustrated with over 160 photos anddrawings, China in Another Time is Claire's vividly personal account of China's struggleto become its own modern nation, from the last imperial dynasty to the advent ofCommunist rule. With an introduction by eminent China scholar Nicholas Cliffordprofessor emeritus at Middlebury College.