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The Ford of Heaven

Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as `The Ford of Heaven` as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a `concession port` in the 1920s and 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America and Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood spent in this strange and exotic place. The world that Power evokes is a microcosm of the complexity and ferment that was China before the Second World War, yet seen through the fresh eyes of a sensitive child attuned to the people around him. This new edition of The Ford of Heaven (first published in 1984) contains a new foreword by Frances Wood, Curator of the British Library`s Chinese Collection, as well as a postscript and inclusion of extensive additional material.

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