Roger B. Jeans


Roger B. Jeans is Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of East Asian History at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Democracy and Socialism in Republican China.


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Cover of Good-Bye to Old Peking

Good-Bye to Old Peking

The Wartime Letters of U.S. Marine Captain John Seymour Letcher, 1937–1939

For two and a half years (1937-1939), Captain John Seymour Letcher commanded a company of the U.S. Embassy Marine Guard in Peking. During that time, he wrote a series of letters to his parents in Virginia describing the life of a Westerner in the former imperial city.…

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