xlii 290 pages. The front board has lifted; the front hinge cracked, though the binding remains solid and the pages tanned. A very good, clean and unmarked, though obviously second hand. Stuart Gelder was :"News Chronicle'" war and special correspondent in China, India and Burma, 1943-45. "The publication in 1946 of his book The Chinese Communists , a chronicle of the Chinese Communist Party's fight against both the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang party , won him the sympathy of Zhou Enlai and privileged access to China in the years that followed. the liberation of the country 2 . He came into contact with a number of personalities, some of whom would later become political leaders...The Gelders were considered by Donald Lopez, Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, to be apologists for the Chinese Communist Party." (Wikipedia)