Kowtow

[NY]: Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1929. 2nd Printing. Green octavo with gilt pictorial stamping; illustrated endpapers; deckle edges; x pages, 2 leaves, 322 pages: frontispiece, plates; 23 cm About very good(-) to good(++); boards a bright green with gilt stamping vibrant; a few tiny dampspots, some mild fraying and sunning to spine and bumping to corners; front flyleaf chip to corner; pages are clean and unmarked save a short and neat inscription to half title; binding sound illustrations are lovely and crisp. Hardcover.

"Lizzie Yu Der Ling (Chinese: 裕德齡; pinyin: Yù Délíng; Wade–Giles: Yü Tê-ling; 1881 – 1944), better known as Princess" Der Ling, and also known as Elisabeth Antoinette White after her marriage to Thaddeus C. White, was the first lady-in-waiting for Empress Dowager Cixi. Her father was the Chinese diplomat Yü Keng; and her mother was Louisa Pierson, who was herself the half-Chinese daughter of a Boston merchant working in Shanghai. Although not a member of the Qing royal family, Der Ling was given the title of "commandery princess" while serving as the lady-in-waiting for Empress Cixi. She was a writer of several memoirs, books, and magazine articles." Kowtow is a semi-autobiographicak work exploring the tensions between east and west, authority and independence, gender roles and cultural understanding from the perspective of a western-educated Chinese woman. | Mixed Race Persons, BIPOC, ASian Studies, China, Women Studies; Anglo-Asians;l Eurasiasn.