Pleasant Journeyings Tour of a Housewife Brave New Cua By Lady Hosie.
Hodder & Stoughton, London. 12/6.
Lady Hosie is no new comer to the public, particularly to such as are interested in China and Chinese affairs, and those who have read her "Two Gentlemen of China" and "Portrait of a Chinese Lady" know the charm and knowledge with which she writes of persons and things Chinese. Her latest work, "Brave New China," shows that she has lost none of that charm, and has amplified by personal observation, of more modern China and Chinese her already profound insight into the minds and thoughts of the people she so genuinely likes and whose best characteristics she seems capable of bringing ta the fore in her contacts with them. The changes wrought during an absence of ten years from China, both in places and people, must have given Lady Hosie pause. but only, it would seem, for a moment, and almost from the time that she first sets foot in Canton, in July 1936, on her return to China, She has apparently without effort "got back," so to speak, and finds no difficulty in adjusting herself and her Outlook to the changed scenes and conditions which she finds confronting her.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.