A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these Letters by an American Missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military Occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre - one man\'s embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war.
Already 25 years in Republican China and fluent in the langu.
A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these Letters by an American Missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military Occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre - one man\'s embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war