"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it ...
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"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm."--Tracy B. Strong, New York Times Book Review "This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China."--Tiffany Brown, Times Literary Supplement
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Very Good. 346pp; Clean, tight copy, VG condition. Memoir completed after the author returned from China in 1937. With historical notes by her son. Illustrated with photos & maps.
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This stands out among travel memoirs because not only did Grace Service lead an unusual life for a woman of her time, but wrote beautifully. The descriptions of her many trips through the turbulent Three Gorges of the Yangtze pulled by hundreds of coolies bent double under their huge ropes was thrilling. Her families overland trips to their mountain home each summer were also fascinating, as well as the domestic scenes from everyday life so different from anything Americans can imagine.
