New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1932. Reprint of May 1969 . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Kurt Wiese (Illustrator). EX-LIB; library slip removal scar to fEP. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Illustrated, tangerine linen boards/NF. DJ/NF w/loss to front inner flap; under library mylar. First published 1932; this is a 1969 reprint. Winner of the Newbery Award (1933) and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960). .First novel (1932) from children's author and Methodist missionary to China, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1892 - 1958). Set in pre-World War II China in the city of Chungking, Szechuan --- the city of hills above the Three Gorges, dominated by warlords, secret societies, bandits, hoodlums, opium, penetration of Western ideas, and by 1937, the wartime capitol of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Story of how Young Fu, whose father was less than diligent, is taken under the wings of, and adopted by, a coppersmith whose finds him worthy. World order of western China near a century ago.

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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze is a book by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1932. The story revolves around Fu Yuin-fah, the son of a widow from the countryside of western China, who wishes to become a coppersmith in the big city on the Yangtze River, Chungking. With the help of many people, including an old scholar and a white missionary, his goal is eventually attained.

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Seller: 100 POCKETS (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 013456
Title: YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
Author: Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
Illustrator: Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint of May 1969
ISBN 10: 0030354358
ISBN 13: 9780030354359
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1932
Keywords: Juvenile/Fiction/China/1930s/Chungking/Szechuan/Pre-World War II

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