Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990
History on the Wing
By John K. Fairbank
Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service
edited by John S. Service
University of California Press, 346 pp., $19.95
Golden Inches is a charming memoir of an American couple who built up the YMCA in Chengtu and Chungking. Their careers on America's farthest Western cultural frontier in Szechwan province give us a sense of the day-to-day texture of Chinese-American relations during the golden age between 1905 and 1935. America was then no threat to China but seemed to have what the country needed and the YMCA could offer by way of education and help in improving social welfare without having missionary strings attached.
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