Son of the Typhoon

New York: Duffield & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor shelfwear, small faded spot at base of spine cloth; jacket has a few small tears, some soiling/rubbing, small chip at base of spine, tiny chip at bottom of rear panel]. "A powerful story of modern China," centering around the mixed-race son born of a forced marriage between a Chinese woman and an American sea-captain. "With character and mind complicated by this conflicting blood, Hen-li develops into a leader of New China. The narrative of his passionate and all but tragic career, his vacillation between Western and Eastern viewpoints, becomes not only an unusual human document but a valuable contribution to our understanding of the political turmoil in the Far East today." A bit pretentious, perhaps, although the jacket blurb states that the author had served in the Consular Service in China and also as a lecturer at a Chinese university, so least he came by his background material honestly. Bennett cranked out a handful of novels and several handfuls (handsful?) of short stories, many for the adventure pulps, mostly between the mid-1920s and the early 1930s -- the great majority of them (surprise!) with Chinese or other Asian-Pacific settings and subjects, with titles like "The Manchu Cloud" and "Dragon Shadows." I've been unable to confirm a death date, but his short-story output appears to have dropped off after about 1932; the latest story I've found by him appeared in 1938. .