{"product_id":"china-years-1925-1952-book-raymond-cook-9780714531120","title":"The China Years 1925-1952","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1925, Elsie Cuthbertson sailed to China to become a missionary. She met and married Clifford Cook, also a missionary. Enduring hostility when the Chinese shouted \"\u003ci\u003eYang kuei tsi\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\"foreign devils\") at them in the street, they knew the dangers of the changing political spectrum. Under the Kuomintang, anti-Western demonstrations were common. They had to escape by barge, return and flee again from the Japanese invasion by hitching a ride in an American pilot's plane. They suffered poverty, lack of medical care and the death of their own infants from lack of hygiene with remarkable equanimity. A record of values and times forever gone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond Cook\u003c\/b\u003e, born in China, is the son of Elsie and Clifford Cook.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50068129480977,"sku":"GOR001781925","price":6.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50904086085905,"sku":"GOR005978295","price":7.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/071453112X.jpg?v=1751200287","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/china-years-1925-1952-book-raymond-cook-9780714531120","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}