Test Tubes and Dragon Scales

George C. Basil, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Published by The John C. Winston Company, Chicago, 1940

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Hardcover

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Hardback. Somewhat tattered cover protecting VG copy. 316 pp. Candid! delightful! shocking! first-person portrait of an American physician in Chongqing in the 1920s and 1930s, co-written with Elisabeth Foreman Lewis, Newberry-prize-winning author of children� s books based in China. Numerous delightful marginal illustrations by Raymond Creekmore. Precision report of an uphill battle between Western science and Chinese custom and superstition. Pictorial map on endpapers.

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Title: Test Tubes and Dragon Scales
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company, Chicago
Publication Date: 1940
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.
Printing: 1st printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Poor

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Peking Man Bookshop has been selling subject collections of Chinese, Japanese, Manchukuo and other Asia-themed books, printed matter and ephemera to university libraries, private collectors, and the trade for the past 40 years. Clients include, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Leiden, Lyon, Library of Congress, Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to books in Chinese, Japanese and English, we have a collection of over 10,000 objects--letters, photos, documents, pamphlets and almost anything one can imagine on paper, reflecting the foreign presence--military, medical, diplomatic, educational, political, recreational and personal--in China and Japan, from the early 19th century onwards. Special collections include posters and maps, juvenalia, Manchukuo, Christianity, health and hygiene, shunga, Maoism, Mongolian sacred objects, and propaganda leaflets from the Sino-Japanese Wa (1931-45) and the Korean War.

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