China Dawn

by Robert Lipscomb Duncan

Book Overview

Spanning fifty turbulent years, this is a saga of passion and war set in Paris and Shanghai where three lives become forever enlaced. It is written by the same author as "Temple Dogs" and "Dragons At... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440203171
• ISBN13: 9780440203179
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 641 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I Love China Dawn

I love China Dawn so much that I translated it into Chinese. Zhongguo Fuxiao, the Chinese version, was published on January 1, 2009 by World Affairs Press in Beijing. I was able to reach the daughter of the author, the late Robert L. Duncan, for the project. She was thrilled about it. China Dawn is the story of an American diplomat, Sam Cummings, who first arrived in Shanghai, China in the early 1930s, and two other main characters, Yuki, a young Japanese woman who escaped poverty at home to start a life in China and Ito, a Japanese military diplomat serving in China. The book follows their work, love, struggle, loss, separation and reunion through the war and the post-war years, all the way to the 1980s. Out of their relationships, a little girl was born in wartime Shanghai and was named Dawn. More importantly, China Dawn is also a story of evolvement of the American foreign policy towards China, especially during the Japanese invasion and occupation of China, from neutrality to allying with and fighting along China. It tells, a first to me, through the experience of an American, Sam, part of the Nanjing Massacre the Japanese military committed against the Chinese population in the winter of 1937, a crime known to all Chinese but not many Americans. Finally, China Dawn is a love story, a love spanning countries and nationalities, war and peace, American, Chinese and Japanese, and a love for China. I most strongly and passionately recommend China Dawn, which I discovered by accident. Read it in English or Chinese. Maybe someone should also translate it into Japanese.