Oil for the Lamps of China.
by HOBART, ALICE TISDALE
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1891936085
- ISBN 13
- 9781891936081
- Seller
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About This Item
Norwalk.: EastBridge.. Reprint.. 2003.. xix + 432pp. Paperback. "Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring 'light' and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps, but who is caught between Chinese revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s and the heartless American corporation which has built his career.
The title became a catch phrase for expansive American dreams of the vast China market even though the novel itself, written at the beginning of the Great Depression, was skeptical of large business and any supposed American ability to improve China.
The author presents a clear portrait of Western idealism versus Eastern pragmatism in the doubly exotic setting of Mainland China before the advent of large-scale industrialization. The portrayal is unflattering to both sides. While some might now regard the more sympathetic treatment of the young American as out of date, others would counter that the picture is both historically and contextually accurate." (Publisher's description). .
The title became a catch phrase for expansive American dreams of the vast China market even though the novel itself, written at the beginning of the Great Depression, was skeptical of large business and any supposed American ability to improve China.
The author presents a clear portrait of Western idealism versus Eastern pragmatism in the doubly exotic setting of Mainland China before the advent of large-scale industrialization. The portrayal is unflattering to both sides. While some might now regard the more sympathetic treatment of the young American as out of date, others would counter that the picture is both historically and contextually accurate." (Publisher's description). .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66591
- Title
- Oil for the Lamps of China.
- Author
- HOBART, ALICE TISDALE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1891936085
- ISBN 13
- 9781891936081
- Publisher
- EastBridge.
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk.
- Date Published
- 2003.
- Keywords
- China, Commerce, East Asia, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novel, Trade, zz_Gallery_NewBooks
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.