The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby.
Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. (circa 2008). Stock ID #167740 This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia in those far-off days - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167740.
xiv + 114pp, glossary, hardback in dustjacket, very good.
"This is my favorite book on old Shanghai by a long margin." Graham Earnshaw, author of Tales of Old Shanghai
Who is Elsie McCormick?
Ms McCormick was an American who published a book called lived in Shanghai for some years in the 1920s, and published a book called Audacious Angles on China in 1923, which included the first version of the Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai baby. A third edition of the Unexpurgated Diary was subsequently published as a stand-alone book in Shanghai by the Chinese American Publishing Co in 1927. By the 1930s, Elsie was back in the United States writing for the New Yorker magazine, which is all the confirmation anyone needs of the quality of a writer's work.
Price: $33.00 AU