Homesick (18 page)

It was during this turbulent period of transition that I was in China. Struggle and civil war (interrupted by a war with Japan ) continued for twenty-two years before Mao Tse-tung defeated Chiang Kai-shek and established the People's Republic of China. Chiang, with remnants of his army and many of his followers, took refuge on the island of Taiwan, where they continued a government which they claimed was still the government of all China. America recognized that government as the government of China until December 1978, although it had lost its seat in the United Nations in 1971.

1925 Christmas letter from Jean to her grandmother

Top:
Jean at age ten
Bottom:
Jean's class at the Hankow British School.
Ian Forbes is second from right. (Jean was absent that day.)

Top:
The Hulls' house
Bottom left:
Lin Nai-Nai
Bottom right:
Climbing a tree at Andrea's house

Top:
Swinging at Andrea's house
Bottom:
Andrea and small friend

Top:
Jean's father
Bottom:
Jean's mother

Summer at Peitaiho

Opposite page
Top:
Junk on Yangtse River
Middle:
The Bund
Bottom:
Y.M.C.A. building

Top:
Marketplace
Bottom:
Jean's mother in a rickshaw

Buildings bombed in Wuchang

Top:
Steamers anchored at Hankow
Bottom:
Jean

Jean's grandparents