{"product_id":"grace-a-china-diary-1910-16-paperback","title":"Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrace Roys\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarvey Roys\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJudy Hogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Woodbridge Roys suffered from bi-polar disease before it was well understood. Her daughter feared that her children would also suffer mental illness. This annotation of Grace's diary opens the early 1900s missionary world in China and the personality of Grace to the reader. In December 1910 Grace married Harvey Curtis Roys, who was teaching physics at Kiang Nan government school in Nanking, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Grace had had a mental breakdown weeks earlier when her missionary father forbade the marriage. The diary records their early married life, the births of their first two children, their social life with other missionaries in China, many of whom made major contributions to Nanking life and education: medical doctors and nurses, theology professors, agricultural innovators, and founders of universities, hospitals, nursing schools, and schools for young Chinese women and men. Included is their experience evacuating during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution of 1911. Well-known missionaries of that time came to tea and taught at the Hillcrest School that the mothers began for foreign children. The Nanyang Exposition took place in 1910, too, as China was in the throes of entering the modern era, with trains, electricity, telegraphs, and a new interest in democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy Hogan was co-editor of a poetry journal, \u003ci\u003eHyperion\u003c\/i\u003e, from 1970 to 1981. In 1976 she founded Carolina Wren Press. She has been active in central North Carolina as a reviewer, book distributor, publisher, teacher, and writing consultant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her newest publication is \u003ci\u003eGrace: A China Diary, 1910-16\u003c\/i\u003e, which she edited and annotated, and \u003ci\u003ePolitical Peaches; The Fifth Penny Weaver Mystery. \u003c\/i\u003e Six other mystery novels, \u003ci\u003eKiller Frost\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eFarm Fresh and Fatal\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) \u003ci\u003eThe Sands of Gower\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003e Haw, Nuclear Apples? \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFormaldehyde, Rooster\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) are in print. She has published six volumes of poetry with small presses, including, \u003ci\u003eBeaver Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eThis River: An Epic Poem\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). Her other published prose is \u003ci\u003eWatering the Roots in a Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eThe PMZ Poor Woman's Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). Her papers and twenty-five years of extensive diaries are in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University. She has taught creative writing since 1974 and Freshman English from 2004 to 2007 at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Between 1990 and 2007 she visited Kostroma, Russia, five times, teaching American literature at Kostroma University in 1995 and giving a paper to a Kostroma University Literature Conference in March 2007. A second paper was published in the 2013 Literature Conference proceedings at Kostroma University. She worked on five exchange visits, as well as cooperative publishing with Kostroma writers and exhibits of their artists. Judy lives and farms in Moncure, North Carolina, near Jordan Lake.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736440377440,"sku":"9781532609398","price":43.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/qWS3pjpx7H9781532609398.webp?v=1777834624","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/grace-a-china-diary-1910-16-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}