Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang Hardcover Dust Jacket Book 1939 Second Impression
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Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang Hardcover Dust Jacket Book 1939 Second Impression. The story is that of two daughters of a Peking upper middle-class family, the gay, whimsical, soft-voiced Mulan, and the bright-eyed, practical, more womanly Mochow. Around these two chief characters is depicted the intimate family life of an old official family. THE APPEARANCE of a novel of China, writ-ten in English but in the authentic manner of the Chinese novelists, is a literary event of the first order, especially when it comes from the author of those famous works, My Country and My People and The Importance of Living. The scene is a moving panorama of con-temporary China, covering nearly forty years, from the terror of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 to the bitter excitement of the pres-ent Japanese invasion, a period of great social change and adjustments in the lives of a teeming humanity. The story is that of two daughters of a Peking upper middle-class family, the gay, whimsical, soft-voiced Mulan, and the bright-eyed, practical, more womanly Mochow. Around these two chief characters is depicted the intimate family life of an old official family. Three sons and three strikingly con-trasted daughters-in-law offer a cross-section of the bewildering modern generation of China. Revealing with tenderness and humor their conflicts and jealousies, their loves and sorrows, the story develops as its theme the dissolution of family discipline and the conflict of the individual and the family.
