The Silent Traveller in Boston

Title: The Silent Traveller in Boston

Author: Yee, Chiang

Publication: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1959.

Description: Travelogue on Boston by Chinese American writer and artist Chiang Yee. Sixth printing. With 16 pages of color plates and numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations by Yee. Bound in full tan cloth stamped in blue. In original pictorial dust jacket. 8.5 x 5.75 inches; xii, 275, [1] pages, [16] pages of plates. Bumped spine ends and light spotting to endpapers and textblock edges; price-clipped dust jacket with tanned spine, a few short closed tears, and light soiling. Very Good in a Good dust jacket.

Chiang Yee was one of the first 20th-century Chinese writers to publish books in English. He was known for The Silent Traveller series, which detailed his visits to various locations in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the United States, and Japan. He was born in China in 1903, moved to England in 1933, and then relocated to the United States in 1955, becoming a professor of Chinese at Columbia University. He was the subject of a 2010 biography by Da Zheng and a 2012 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.