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Tea on the Great Wall: An American Girl in War-Torn China

Posted: November 9th, 2015 | No Comments »

Tea on the Great Wall is the new memoir of 1930s Shanghai from Patricia Luce Chapman…

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Shirley Temple in Wonderland meets Chinese opium addicts, Nazis, and Japanese bayonets “Tea on the Great Wall” is a young American girl s account as the world falls apart in 1930s China. Patricia Luce Chapman s memoir is full of the color and feel of living as a foreigner in a Chinese world, the encroachment of the Japanese, and the takeover by the Nazis of the German school in Shanghai that she attended.”



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