Oil For the Lamps of China
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Oil for the Lamps of China (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1933; rpr. EastBridge, 2002 ISBN 1891936085)
A novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart and a 1935 film by the same name. [1] The novel, which became a bestseller in 1934, describes the life in China of a young executive from the early 1900s through the Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s. The author's husband was an executive for the Standard Oil Company.
The young protagonist of the novel, Stephen Chase, is successful in understanding China and building business, but in the turmoil of China's Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s, he is betrayed by the Company and by the new China which emerges.
