Two Years in the French West Indies

by Lafcadio Hearn

Book Overview

By the 1930s Western books about China were common. But a book about the West, and particularly London, written by a Chinese author, was a rarity -- and continues to be so.Chiang Yee's account of London, first published in 1938, is original in more ways than one. Not only one of the first widely available books written by a Chinese author in English, it also reverses the expected conventions of travel writing. For here the exotic subject matter is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566563704
• ISBN13: 9781566563703
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"