8This volume will try to tell the story of what has happened in China during the last hundred years, from the cession of Hongkong in 1842 to the blitzkrieg of Pearl Harbor in 1941, with emphasis on the latter half of that period. An eyewitness account of what has happened in China tracing the trend of events from early days in Chekiang to the social and political upheavals all over China. An acute, perceptive commentary on the transforming of China, and the humble, ordinary memoirs of a life well spent, in this autobiography of historical reminiscences.