
In the summer of 1948, Winthrop Knowlton and his friend, James C. Thomson, Jr., just graduated from prep school, set out for China. During the next nine months they would travel throughout revolution-torn China as Mao Tse-tung's Communist forces moved ever southward fighting Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist armies in their retreat to Formosa. Separated by the war, they rejoined in South China and con...
Grade Level: 1 - 2
Series: Signature Books
Paperback: 150 pages
Publisher: EastBridge, a nonprofit corporation (October 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1891936018
ISBN-13: 978-1891936012
Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 3480413
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My First Revolution by Win Knowlton is a jewel of a book. It's the author's story of his year in China, after graduation from boarding school in 1948 - the year of the Communist revolution. It is an exuberant tale of youthful experience told with t...
r journey -- their revolution around the world -- by freighter to a Europe still reeling from World War II, and across the Atlantic back home.Knowlton's memoir tells a magnificent story of that remarkable time. The story closes with Knowlton's return to China in 1979 at the head of an American publishing delegation, a retrospective look at the events of 1948-49 giving the book still another historical and human dimension.