{"product_id":"adventures-adrift-don-brown-9780984950461","title":"Adventures Adrift","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book you are now holding is a literary artifact, essentially faithful to the original text of Don Browns' hand-written manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that Don's manuscript was composed \"then.\" Don's China, during the 1930s\/'1940s, had been wracked by decades-long warfare. Subsequent revolution brought sweeping social and jolting political alignments that demanded \"restructuring\" to reflect their new \"socialist cultural reality.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch was the case in post-bellum China under the newly ascendent Communist government. Control of language became an important feature. In 1979, the People's Republic of China replaced the long-used and familiar 19th century Wade-Giles system of romanizing--i.e. transcribing, transliterating and pronouncing standard Mandarin Chinese into English using the familiar Roman alphabet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProper nouns denoting once-familiar cities, regions and geographic locations were arbitrarily reassigned the new Pin Yin notation; as a result they no longer correspond with today's maps and charts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peking\" became \"Bejing.\" \"Tinsing\" became \"Quing Dao.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've included the original Wade-Giles spellings followed by the contemporary Pin Yin pronunciations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, contemporary graphic and digital media communication styles differ. Once widely applied forms of diacritical punctuation--used as pronunciation keys in the transliteration of foreign languages in popular media are rarely used, if at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an effort to facilitate following Don's wide-ranging sea-going career, additional page-below footnotes have been used to provide context items and events specific to Don's narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Follow Don's wartime geographic locations along China's contemporary coastlines depicted by today's 21st Century cartography on page 122.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 098495046X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984950461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pacific-Noir Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Don Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44131886858495,"sku":"9780984950461","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba4b488d-5bc4-4dd8-81e1-90e6f9935afb.jpg?v=1687476979","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adventures-adrift-don-brown-9780984950461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}