AUDACIOUS ANGLES On CHINA.
Shanghai: Chinese American Publishing Co., 1922. Revised Edition, published the same year as the first edition. [2], ii, ii, [2], 222 pp.. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8". Printed marbled card stock covers. Cocked. Spine sunned. Foxed. An About VG copy. Item #42358
About this work, McCormick, who was a foreign correspondent for several newspapers, among them The China Press and The San Francisco Call-Bulletin, states "this little book of sketches on life in the Far East is not offered as the work of a sinologue. It consists of articles that have appeared from day to day in the China Press and which present the panorama of life in China as seen by a resident rather than by a tourist."
The prior owner, Addie Viola Smith, was the first woman to join the U. S. Foreign Service; in 1922, she become the Assistant Trade Commissioner at Shanghai [no doubt explaining acquisition of this book] and promoted to Trade Commissioner in 1928; she was also registrar of the China Trade Act (1922). Further, she was admitted to practice law at the U. S. Court of China. She became American consul and secretary at Shanghai from 1939. All-in-all, an influential lady during the 1920s & 30s.
The volume a nice personal glimpse of early 20s life in China, by one who was there, with the enviable provenance of being formerly owned by a groundbreaking lady of the US foreign service stationed in Shanghai at the time of publication.
Price: $145.00