{"product_id":"golden-inches-john-s-service-9780520074163","title":"Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service","description":"\"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to.\"--John Espey, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \"A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm.\"--Tracy B. Strong, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China.\"--Tiffany Brown, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Service\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520074165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520074163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.05w x 1.15d","brand":"John S. Service","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119755161855,"sku":"9780520074163","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fb93e84-61a3-4f37-8c9a-fef53dae5329.jpg?v=1687410788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/golden-inches-john-s-service-9780520074163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}