Two Kinds of Time

Reviews / Votes

"Of the many people who came to China in the 20th century and wrote about it, Peck remains one of the most fluid and sensitive. . . . [The book] gives a fabulous picture of this moment when America, and the West more generally, and China try to come to an understanding and singularly fail, and unfortunately set the path, for the best part of a quarter of a century, for isolation from each other before things change again in the 1960s and 1970s."

- Rana Mitter (The Browser) "Two Kinds of Time is a lyrical, often poetic, sumptuous read."

(The China Project) "Riveting and hilarious accounts of travels through WW II-era China by an American diplomat (and litterateur and artist), fascinating in their own right and all the more rewarding because of their resonance with the superficially different China of 60+ years later."

- James Fallows (The Atlantic Monthly) "Two Kinds of Time is an extensive chronicle, a highly recommended snapshot of this period."

(Midwest Book Review) "This handsomely produced reissue gives us a chance to revisit Graham Peck's slyly rollicking, incisive, and influential underground classic of reporting on wartime China."

(The Chinese Historical Review)