Discover Peking Dust Imagined By Ellen N. La Motte Displayed As Paper Edition

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We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book, Meant to be read, I think, in connection with her entire body of work on the subject of the opium monopoly in China, To understand the backstory, read the biography of Ellen La Motte in the Watchtell edition of her earlier work, The Backwash of War, La Motte stays focused in Beijing Peking at the time a city she continually returns to on her yearlong trip around Asia with her partner, referred to in the text as "E" who is the socialite Emily Crane Chadbourne.
"Peking dust" is a metaphor for gossip, which the narrative is rife composed of but also includes wellresearched newspaper articles and the gossip is about international politics.
Spoiler: She's not wrong. Mostly, La Motte is concerned with uncovering the hypocrisy behind the West's opium monopoly in China, Her American nationalism comes into play as she engages in anticonquest See Mary Pratt while asserting America's innocence in the imperialist theatre which was Beijing in the's.
Mostly unknown today, it's

an entertaining read for a student of historical politics, Ellen Newbold La Mottewas an American nurse, journalist and author, She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Balti, Maryland, and involunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I.
In Belgium she served in a French field hospital, keeping a bitter diary detailing the horrors that she witnessed daily, Back in America, she turned her diary into a book, The Backwash of War, containing fourteen vignettes of typical scenes, Despite early success, the brutal imagery was unpalatable and the book was suppressed and not republished until, During her time in Paris during the war La Motte formed a close friendship with the American expat writer Gert Ellen Newbold La Mottewas an American nurse, journalist and author.
She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Balti, Maryland, and involunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I.
In Belgium she served in a French field hospital, keeping a bitter diary detailing the horrors that she witnessed daily, Back in America, she turned her diary into a book, The Backwash of War, containing fourteen vignettes of typical scenes, Despite early success, the brutal imagery was unpalatable and the book was suppressed and not republished until, During her time in Paris during the war La Motte formed a close friendship with the American expat writer Gertrude Stein, Researchers have speculated that Ernest Hemingway's influential unadorned style may have been influenced by La Motte's own writing, through Stein's mentoring, After the war, La Motte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction, These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem: Peking Dust, Civilization: Tales of the Orient, Opium Monopoly, Ethics of Opium, Snuffs and Buttersand Opium in Geneva: Or How The Opium Problem is Handled by the League of Nations.
The Chinese Nationalist government awarded her the Lin Tse Hsu Memorial Medal in, sitelink.