My Twenty-Five Years in China

"China from a Western Perspective: My Twenty-Five Years in China" At the beginning of the 20th century, American journalist John Benjamin Powell came to Shanghai, China, and began his 25-year legendary experience in the East. He traveled all over China and visited the former Soviet Union, Japan, the Philippines and other countries. Therefore, he was particularly familiar with the political and military situation in the Far East in the 1920s and 1930s, and made in-depth reports on major events that occurred that year. In China, Powell interviewed many important political figures at the time, and also came into contact with the lives of the lower classes who were suffering from the war; he was often a guest of dignitaries from various countries, and was kidnapped by bandits in the "Blue Steel Incident" and became a prisoner of the Japanese army after the outbreak of the Pacific War; he went deep into the Sino-Soviet border to understand the intricate interest disputes between Japan and the Soviet Union in Northeast my country, and also witnessed the Japanese bombing of Shanghai and Nanjing... The most turbulent years in modern Chinese history have left traces of memory in this book. The author's observation and analysis, feelings and thoughts on China's political and social reality, as well as his experience and recording, exposure and criticism of the Japanese aggression crimes in China, are all truly presented to us from a Western perspective.