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Book SynopsisDetails Chinese history in revolutionary period - an account of everyday people in China on the eve of revolution. This book offers historical and political information.
Trade Review"Of the many people who came to China in the 20th century and wrote about it, Peck remains one of the most fluid and sensitive. . . . [The book] gives a fabulous picture of this moment when America, and the West more generally, and China try to come to an understanding and singularly fail, and unfortunately set the path, for the best part of a quarter of a century, for isolation from each other before things change again in the 1960s and 1970s."
-- Rana Mitter * The Browser *
"Two Kinds of Time is a lyrical, often poetic, sumptuous read."
* The China Project *
"Riveting and hilarious accounts of travels through WW II-era China by an American diplomat (and litterateur and artist), fascinating in their own right and all the more rewarding because of their resonance with the superficially different China of 60+ years later."
-- James Fallows * The Atlantic Monthly *
"Two Kinds of Time is an extensive chronicle, a highly recommended snapshot of this period."
* Midwest Book Review *
"This handsomely produced reissue gives us a chance to revisit Graham Peck's slyly rollicking, incisive, and influential underground classic of reporting on wartime China."
* The Chinese Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2008 Edition by Robert A. Kapp
Part I: The Problem Proposed
1. Double Exposure
2. Uneasy Weather
3. The Threatening Sky
4. Around and Around
5. That Secret Smile
6. Some Compartments
Part II: The Edge of the Shadow
7. Road to the North
8. Good Intentions
9. The Sealed Cave
10. A City Falling Apart
11. Aftermath
12. Town and Country
13. Ebb-Tide
Part III: Americans and the Old Problem
14. Different Dreams in the Same Bed
15. The Sounding Board
16. Who Does What to Whom, and Who Pays?
17. The Pillar of Weakness
Part IV: An Experiment with Air
18. Bird's Eye
19. People in Trees
20. "Truth is Our Weapon"
21. The Enormous Day
22. Fields for the Harvest
Part V: The Time for Decision
23. An Incident
24. Some People
25. The Mechanized Dragon
26. Don't Ever Look Behind You
Part VI: The Period of Results
27. A Disaster
28. Out of the Frying Pan
