Emily Georgiana Kemp, a seasoned traveller in China, goes far beyond Shanghai and Tientsin into the interior. She describes the long roads, the model governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi, and the Miao peoples of the southwest, whose women weave vivid kilts and jackets, as evidence of the energy of the young republic, with a prologue by the diplomat Alfred Sze.
A warm, informed portrait of China in the early 1920s, dedicated to the author’s Chinese friends. Download the free EPUB.