The daughter of a missionary doctor, Claire Malcolm 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, China in Another Time — with over 160 photos and
drawings — is Claire’s own story.

A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades that
made today’s China. Born in China’s interior as the daughter of a Canadian medical missionary, Claire
Malcolm Lintilhac learned fluent Chinese, became a traveling nurse and lived through
the whole momentous first half of China’s 20th century. After her family barely escaped
the bloody Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Claire witnessed firsthand the years of civil war that
followed China’s short-lived Nationalist Revolution of 1911. In the 1930s — as Claire
cared for patients both Western and Chinese, fell in love and started a family — she
survived Japan’s two horrific attacks on Shanghai, and her British husband Lin was
interned by the Japanese in a Shanghai camp during World War II. In 1949 Claire
watched as China’s greatest city fell to the Communist Party, and in 1950 she, Lin and
their son Philip finally left the country they loved. Illustrated with over 160 photos and
drawings, China in Another Time is Claire’s vividly personal account of China’s struggle
to become its own modern nation, from the last imperial dynasty to the advent of
Communist rule. With an introduction by eminent China scholar Nicholas Clifford,
professor emeritus at Middlebury College.

Review

"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."

Helen Zia, author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

"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."

R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA, and author of China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience

"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."

Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; co-author of China's New Rulers: The Secret Files and The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress, and author of China's Transition, China's Crisis, and Chinese Democracy

"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. China in Another Time is enlivened by firsthand details, enriched by sidebar materials that help orient readers unfamiliar with the setting and the history, and filled with evocative visual materials."

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, co-author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

"Born in 1899 to a Canadian medical missionary and his wife in a rural Chinese village, the author lived through the Boxer Rebellion, the first national government takeover and collapse, a decade-long period of warlord rule, a successful national government takeover in 1928, and finally, the Communist takeover in 1949. Throughout her narrative, she focuses on how such instability affected the Chinese people, as well as her own daily life as a 24-hour duty nurse."

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