{"product_id":"adventures-adrift-paperback","title":"Adventures Adrift - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book you are now holding is a literary artifact, essentially faithful to the original text of Don Browns' hand-written manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that Don's manuscript was composed \"then.\" Don's China, during the 1930s\/'1940s, had been wracked by decades-long warfare. Subsequent revolution brought sweeping social and jolting political alignments that demanded \"restructuring\" to reflect their new \"socialist cultural reality.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch was the case in post-bellum China under the newly ascendent Communist government. Control of language became an important feature. In 1979, the People's Republic of China replaced the long-used and familiar 19th century Wade-Giles system of romanizing--i.e. transcribing, transliterating and pronouncing standard Mandarin Chinese into English using the familiar Roman alphabet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProper nouns denoting once-familiar cities, regions and geographic locations were arbitrarily reassigned the new Pin Yin notation; as a result they no longer correspond with today's maps and charts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peking\" became \"Bejing.\" \"Tinsing\" became \"Quing Dao.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've included the original Wade-Giles spellings followed by the contemporary Pin Yin pronunciations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, contemporary graphic and digital media communication styles differ. Once widely applied forms of diacritical punctuation--used as pronunciation keys in the transliteration of foreign languages in popular media are rarely used, if at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an effort to facilitate following Don's wide-ranging sea-going career, additional page-below footnotes have been used to provide context items and events specific to Don's narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Follow Don's wartime geographic locations along China's contemporary coastlines depicted by today's 21st Century cartography on page 122.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42721032077375,"sku":"9780984950478","price":47.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/67a134988fdbbb450f942eb5938ddacf.webp?v=1765090935","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/adventures-adrift-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}