China In Another Time: A Personal Story

The daughter of a missionary doctor Claire Malcolm Lintilhac was born in China became a nurse there and lived and worked through Chinas whole momentous first half of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the worlds newest yet oldest superpower China in Another Time -- with over 160 photos and drawings -- is Claires own story.A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades that made todays China. Born in Chinas interior as the daughter of a Canadian medical missionary Claire Malcolm Lintilhac learned fluent Chinese became a traveling nurse and lived through the whole momentous first half of Chinas 20th century. After her family barely escaped the bloody Boxer Rebellion of 1900 Claire witnessed firsthand the years of civil war that followed Chinas short-lived Nationalist Revolution of 1911. In the 1930s -- as Claire cared for patients both Western and Chinese fell in love and started a family -- she survived Japans two horrific attacks on Shanghai and her British husband Lin was interned by the Japanese in a Shanghai camp during World War II. In 1949 Claire watched as Chinas greatest city fell to the Communist Party and in 1950 she Lin and their son Philip finally left the country they loved. Illustrated with over 160 photos and drawings China in Another Time is Claires vividly personal account of Chinas struggle to become its own modern nation from the last imperial dynasty to the advent of Communist rule. With an introduction by eminent China scholar Nicholas Clifford professor emeritus at Middlebury College.