"...Pruitt tells us of a way of life that will never be found again in China, that of the very wealthy. She preserves for us the style and grace of their world without either romanticizing them or castigating them for a lack of social enlightenment as yet beyond their comprehension. She also gives us rare glimpses into Peking's foreign community...during those last years before the Japanese occupation" -- from the Introduction by Margery Wolf.

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life, 1926-1938

Pruitt, Ida

Stanford University Press

1979

2007.066.526