Here is a story of China, and stories about Chinese people, told by an American who was born in Shanghai. Muriel Boone served as a Christian missionary in China for thirty-two years. Her parents and her grandparents were missionaries to China. Taken together, the Boone family represents over three hundred years of service to the people of China. Thus Miss Boone has a personal knowledge of China that is matched by few Americans. The reader of Spring Bamboo learns of the customs and practices of everyday life of the people of China, sees the mountains and the rivers, travels on the river-boats, visits in Chinese homes, rides in rickshas, and dines on Chinese food. When the War Lords interrupts the even flow of living and traveling, the reader is in the thick of uncertainty and danger. And when the communists take over, the loss of lives and property is a terrible tragedy that comes home to the reader very vividly.