{"product_id":"adventures-adrift-9780984950478","title":"Adventures Adrift","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book you are now holding is a literary artifact, essentially faithful to the original text of Don Browns' hand-written manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that Don's manuscript was composed \"then.\" Don's China, during the 1930s\/'1940s, had been wracked by decades-long warfare. Subsequent revolution brought sweeping social and jolting political alignments that demanded \"restructuring\" to reflect their new \"socialist cultural reality.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch was the case in post-bellum China under the newly ascendent Communist government. Control of language became an important feature. In 1979, the People's Republic of China replaced the long-used and familiar 19th century Wade-Giles system of romanizing--i.e. transcribing, transliterating and pronouncing standard Mandarin Chinese into English using the familiar Roman alphabet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProper nouns denoting once-familiar cities, regions and geographic locations were arbitrarily reassigned the new Pin Yin notation; as a result they no longer correspond with today's maps and charts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peking\" became \"Bejing.\" \"Tinsing\" became \"Quing Dao.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've included the original Wade-Giles spellings followed by the contemporary Pin Yin pronunciations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, contemporary graphic and digital media communication styles differ. Once widely applied forms of diacritical punctuation--used as pronunciation keys in the transliteration of foreign languages in popular media are rarely used, if at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an effort to facilitate following Don's wide-ranging sea-going career, additional page-below footnotes have been used to provide context items and events specific to Don's narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Follow Don's wartime geographic locations along China's contemporary coastlines depicted by today's 21st Century cartography on page 122.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6032708\"\u003eDon Brown\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pacific-Noir Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984950478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0984950478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO008000\"\u003eMilitary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pacific-Noir Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44444668330221,"sku":"9780984950478","price":36.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a109002c-3941-40ab-af68-4e0d083a730d.jpg?v=1700248151","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/adventures-adrift-9780984950478","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}