Xiao Qian's Travel Notes: Wanderings Abroad

Author: Qian Xue
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: On August 31, 1939, Qian Xue boarded the French liner "Amis" bound for Europe. The next day (September 1), Germany declared war on Poland without warning, marking the outbreak of World War II. Qian Xue's journey to Europe was twofold: he served as a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and as a correspondent for the Dagongbao in the UK. As the only Chinese journalist on the European front at the time, he traveled with British and American forces across the battlefield. After the war, he covered the founding of the United Nations, the Potsdam Conference, and the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal's trial of the Nazis. He wrote dispatches about the stories from the war front and the major historical events of the post-war era, sending them back to China continuously. These dispatches, along with his experiences in the United States, were compiled into Overseas Traces. The book includes chapters such as: The Journey to Europe, A Crime on the Ship, Letters from Cambridge, First Visit to London, Diary of an Old Comrade, A Week in London, Bloody September, and Symphony of Contradictions.