BOOK REVIEW: A Danger Shared (A journalist’s glimpse of a continent at war)

Edited by Pete Spurrier, Melville Jacoby (photographs) and Bill Lascher (text). Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong. Hard cover, 276 pp, US$56

Melville Jacoby landed in Guangzhou on September 11, 1936, at the age of 20, a Stanford University student about to study for a year at China’s Lingnan University. Although he is all but missing from history today, Jacoby’s story is astonishing and this record, by journalist and author Bill Lascher, is one that deserves wider recognition. The Hong Kong-…