WITHIN THE WALLS OF NANKING. Proem By Florence Ayscough.

HOBART, Alice T. et al.

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New York 1929, Macmillan. Buff cloth, 243 p., 4 b.w. photos, 2 appendices, 2 maps, poem by Florence Ayscough, very clean & bright copy, 13 x 18 cm., RARE original dustjacket a bit rubbed, in mylar protector. * * FIRST AMERICAN EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . THE PRIMARY ACCOUNT BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN . . . AND RESIDENT IN NANJING DURING THE TIME THE OF THE . . . K.M.T. [KUOMINTANG] ASSAULT ON NANJING . . . DURING THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION OF 1927 . * Nanjing was also known as "Lanjin" in Nanjing dialect, it is the capital of Jiangsu province. . This work expresses the personal and primary experiences of two American women during the "Nanking Incident in March, 1927, [Pinyin: Nanjing Shìjian]. . An exciting & true story of life in the old capital of Nanjing. Of the stressful life for months of uncertainty & terror in Nanjing when it was captured by the e National Revolutionary Army (NRA). . Foreign warships bombarded the city to defend foreign residents against rioting and looting. Several ships were involved in the engagement, including vessels of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy. Marines and sailors were also landed for rescue operations. Both Nationalist and Communist soldiers within the NRA participated in the rioting and looting of foreign-owned property in Nanjing . These two famous American woman authors were among those captured by the Nationalist military forces. It is her story of life within the Nanjing city walls of the 1920's. . The work is enhanced by a proem by Florence Ayscough born ca.1878 in Shanghai, died 1942. She was a student of Chinese Art, Literature & sinology. She was also a notable author of many books about China. . *** THE NANJING INCIDENT 1927: . Occurred in March 1927 during the capture of Nanjing (then Nanking) by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) in their Northern Expedition. Foreign warships bombarded the city to defend foreign residents against rioting and looting. Several ships were involved in the engagement, including vessels of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy. Marines and sailors were also landed for rescue operations. Both Nationalist and Communist soldiers within the NRA participated in the rioting and looting of foreign-owned property in Nanjing. . The focus of this book describes the Nationalist assault on Nanking and the experiences of Europeans and Americans living in the city at the time. This is a graphic memoir of the author's experience during the "Nanking Incident" during spring of 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zong-chang. A result was the killing of the American president of Nanking University. The looted homes and businesses of foreign residents: Americans, British, Japanese and others. Rescue response by the Royal Navy and U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers fighting off the NRA responded, engaging and driving off the NRA [National Revolutionary Army] soldiers, Chinese rioters by evacuating foreigners including the families of Hobart & Ayscough to Shanghai. Above extracted liberally from Wikipedia. . *** THE AUTHOR: Alice Tisdale Hobart [1882-1967]: . She was a well-known American woman author of popular fiction & non-fiction books about China. She was born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York. Her most famous book, OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA, which was made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912. . * She first traveled to China in 1908 to visit her sister Mary, who taught at a girl's school in Hangzhou, and returned two years later to take up a post at the same establishment. After marrying Earle Tisdale Hobart, a Standard Oil Company executive, in Tianjin in 1914, she traveled to Manchuria and in 1916 published an article on her experiences at the hands of Manchurian bandits in The Atlantic Monthly. It led to a series of pieces entitled Leaves From a Manchurian Diary an. Seller Inventory # 85156302

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