An American in China 1936-1939: A Memoir
by Gould Hunter Thomas
Category: History

SUPERANNO An account of life in China as seen through the eyes of a young American businessman living and working in Tsingtao, Chungking, and Canton in the late 1930s. This journal relates in a first-hand way the early events of the Sino-Japanese War, specifically the fall of Tsingtao, where the author was living in 1937-38. In Chungking he experienced life for foreigners living in a Yangtze port during the gunboat era.