Fragile Cargo

China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City

Fragile Cargo
Adam Brookes
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Hardback
h241 x 165mm - 384pg
1 Sep 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781784743796
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Fragile Cargo will share the as-yet-untold story of the brave people who saved China' s art from the ravages of the Second World War, undertaking a perilous journey across the vast country in order to protect these fragile treasures. After the end of the war, and the beginning of the Communist regime, the Forbidden City curators were each faced with a stark choice- remain with their rescued artefacts in China, or flee with them to Taiwan. Depending on their choice, the curators' fates took startlingly different, sometimes heart-breaking turns. Author and former BBC Beijing correspondent Adam Brookes draws on first-hand diary accounts and his own interviews with eyewitnesses to offer a new perspective on China' s twentieth-century history, exploring the cultural, social and political impact of the war and the Revolution on the country' s people and its art heritage. The gripping story of the heroic evacuation of China' s Forbidden City art collection by its curators as the Japanese forces advanced during the Second World War.
Adam Brookes is an author and journalist, a former radio producer at the BBC World Service and BBC Beijing correspondent, whose writing draws extensively on his years in China and tries to unravel what goes on behind the scenes of intelligence and modern surveillance states. During his journalistic career he reported from over thirty countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea and Mongolia, for the BBC television and radio and was interviewed on multiple occasions by BBC News and The New York Times. He is the author of Night Heron, Spy Games and The Spy' s Daughter. He currently lives in the United States.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784743796
Published: 1 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 619g
Pages: 384

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