Golden Inches

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ISBN: 9780520074163 | 0520074165
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/1991

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This memoir was completed shortly after Grace Service returned from China in 1937. Her eldest son, John S. Service, a Foreign Service officer in China from 1933 to 1945 and a member of General Stilwell's advisory staff, has provided historical contexts and illustrations for the events described in his mother's narrative. Book jacket.

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Note on Romanization	p. xiii
Editor's Foreword	p. xv
Author's Foreword	p. xxv
Getting There
Student Volunteers (1905)	p. 1
Virginia (1905)	p. 7
Shanghai (1905)	p. 11
The Houseboat (1906)	p. 18
Tragedy on the River (1906)	p. 25
Illness in Chungking (1906)	p. 30
To Chengtu (1906)	p. 37
Settled in Chengtu
Mount Omei Summer (1906)	p. 45
Our Own Home (1907)	p. 54
Again to Omei (1907)	p. 60
Open House Days (1907-8)	p. 67
Journey to the West (1908)	p. 76
Tibetan Camp (1908)	p. 82
Home from the Mountains (1908)	p. 90
First Son (1909-10)	p. 97
Second Son (1910-11)	p. 105
Peony Mountain (1911)	p. 112
Detour for Revolution
Revolution (1911)	p. 121
Flight (1911)	p. 129
Nanking Interlude (1912)	p. 138
Alone at Kuling (1912)	p. 149
Up the River Again (1912)	p. 154
Achievement in Chengtu
Back Home in Chengtu (1913)	p. 163
Third Son (1914)	p. 167
Furlough at Last (1915)	p. 173
Return to China (1916)	p. 181
White Deer Summit (1917)	p. 187
Shadows of a Distant War (1917-18)	p. 193
Our Mountain Home (1918)	p. 200
Bob Reaches Forty (1919)	p. 205
Climbing Higher (1919)	p. 211
Last Rites for Confucius (1920)	p. 216
To Shanghai with Jack (1920)	p. 223
Ten Years for the Chengtu Y (1921)	p. 231
Farewell to Chengtu (1921)	p. 237
Chungking
Starting in Chungking (1921-22)	p. 245
River City (1922)	p. 252
Young Bob to Shanghai (1923)	p. 259
Treaty Port Life (1923)	p. 265
A Near Thing (1923)	p. 271
Grace Leaves Szechwan (1923)	p. 278
Shanghai
A Time of Reckoning (1923-24)	p. 287
Unsettling Furlough (1924-25)	p. 292
Settling in Shanghai (1925-26)	p. 299
Tense Times (1927)	p. 305
Committee Woman (1928-29)	p. 310
Storm Brewing (1930-31)	p. 317
The Blow Falls (1932-34)	p. 323
Bob Leaves Us (1935)	p. 330
Starting Anew (1935-37)	p. 335
Epilogue	p. 339
Editor's Epilogue	p. 341
The Members of the Family	p. 344
Glossary	p. 345
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