The impetus for Spokane author Joan Burbick to write “Erased” happened the way it would in a book: Her husband received an ...

There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China’s permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking’s and Chiang’s political instability ...

Diplomatically timed, the news arrived during China’s celebration of the Double Tenth (tenth day of the tenth month), the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Republic. In Chungking 80,000 of ...