13 A Greater Acceptance of the Universe

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Who Was My Mother? 1
6. Part 1
7. From a Background of Privilege 13
8. Prelude to Adventure 24
9. Struggling with Culture Shock 35
10. Spring in the Golden Valley 44
11. Chungchow Diary: Living with Uncertainty 48
12. Part 2
13. Hijacked on the Yangtze 61
14. Shanghai Exile 67
15. Eight Months of Separation 76
16. Back to Chungking: Four Months in Purgatory 83
17. Golden Valley Scrapbook:1930-33 90
18. “When Death Threw the Dice” 98
19. Part 3
20. Furlough: An Oasis of Opportunity 103
21. A Greater Acceptance of the Universe 109
22. A Time of Transition 126
23. Conquering Herself 138
24. Creative Writing 142
25. Wartime in Chungking 146
26. Wedding Anniversary 156
27. Wartime Diary: 1939-41 161
28. Part 4
29. The Little Brown Bird Takes Flight 167
30. Eden Rent Asunder 176
31. Deciding to Work with Communists 185
32. Two Solitudes 191
33. Part 5
34. Heaven and Hell in Shanghai, 1947 197
35. Life—in the Cold War—with Jim 208
36. The Winter Years 227
37. Epilogue 241
38. Three Poems by Mary Austin Endicott 243
39. Historical Background 246
40. Bibliography 251
41. Books in the Life Writing Series Published 252