The China Years 1925-52: The Life and Letters of the REV & Mrs Clifford V. Cook

by Raymond Cook

In 1925, Elsie Cuthbertson sailed to China to become a missionary. She met and married Clifford Cook, also a missionary. Enduring hostility when the Chinese shouted "Yang kuei tsi" ("foreign devils") at them in the street, they knew the dangers of the changing political spectrum. Under the Kuomintang, anti-Western demonstrations were common. They had to escape by barge, return and flee again from the Japanese invasion by hitching a ride...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071453112X
• ISBN13: 9780714531120
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"