A friend loaned this to me after I raved about "WildSwans", which I got from Amazon auction. The style is not warmlybiographical, but the author gives an amazing picture of life in China from 1927 to 1933. I too would love to know what happened to her and her family. Anyone who enjoyed this should certainly read "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang. Both contain information about China which was a complete revelation for me.

Having lived in China and Taiwan for over 5 years, I truly enjoyed this insight into Chinese life in the 1920's! The author does a wonderful job of pulling the reader into the historical events. I am very interested to know what happened to the author, her daughter and her husband.

Nora Waln was my history teacher at Tientsin Grammar School mid-l930's. An American teaching English history. Would like to know what happened to her. I remember she left our school to marry.

This memoir provides a unique cross section of life in Nazi Germany before the war. The author presents the stories of the things she saw and the people she met while staying in Germany in an engaging and unbiased manner. The stories are unusual in content, from the life in of forest tenders to an account of how the citizens of one city keep their town green by watering vine roots in their basements.

The author doesn't try to tell you how to think, she merely presents the evidence as she saw it. And that evidence is a valuable clue to understanding how the German people could support a regime that proved to be as violent and hateful as the Nazi government was.

This is one of my favorite accounts of the time period, and is one of the most memorable books I've ever read.