Cocoons of Silk: A True Romance from 1930s China (Paperback) by Paul J C Yang, Dori Jones Yang, Ping-Nan Yang

9780983527220. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 168. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. "The author of this memoir, Ping-Nan Yang, was born in 1908 near Lianyungang on the eastern coast of China. A gifted young scholar, he became a teacher at the age of sixteen. Later, after the tangled romance told in this book, he served as a political commissar in China's national army and fought against the Japanese invasion. He wrote this story in Chinese during his later years, in Taiwan, in 1987."--Back cover.