《The Ford of Heaven》是Signal Books Ltd出版的圖書，作者是Brian Power
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Ford of Heaven
- 作者：Brian Power
- 出版社：Signal Books Ltd
- 出版時間：2005年6月1日
- 頁數：234 頁
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9781904955016
- 售價：GBP 14.99
內容簡介
Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as 'The Ford of Heaven' as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a 'concession port' in the 1920s and 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America and Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood...(展開全部) Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as 'The Ford of Heaven' as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a 'concession port' in the 1920s and 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America and Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood spent in this strange and exotic place. The world that Power evokes is a microcosm of the complexity and ferment that was China before the Second World War, yet seen through the fresh eyes of a sensitive child attuned to the people around him. This new edition of The Ford of Heaven (first published in 1984) contains a new foreword by Frances Wood, Curator of the British Library's Chinese Collection, as well as a postscript and inclusion of extensive additional material. 布萊恩·鮑爾，英國人，1918年生於天津，1936年赴英國求學，在天津的英租界生活了18年。 他本打算讀完大學後回到中國當一名教師，但戰爭與革命卻使他過了將近四十年後才得以重返天津。 他的這本回憶錄，記述了當年租界社會各方面的細節，尤其是租界中外國人的生活內容，他們的的思所想。本書1985年首次在出版，2005年修訂後重版，增加了他四次回天津尋訪的內容。
