The Crippled Tree - By Han Suyin

Hardcover first published 1965 by Jonathan Cape. The jacket is whole, with light wear and sunning to the edges, and sunning to the spine, and is covered in a plastic sleeve. The boards solid, with some light wear in places, and a slight crease to the spine. Apart from a small ownership stamp and a bookshop label, all pages are clean and unmarked. "In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama of the history of China from 1885 to 1928. It contains eye-witness accounts, from family papers, of the Sino-French War, of the revolution of 1911 and of the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek."