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Four Hundred Million Customers: The Experiences—Some Happy, Some Sad, of an American Living in China, and What They Taught Him

Carl Crow

Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. The book has lost none of its still perceptive insights into China, which is now more than triple "four hundred million."

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Business Biography -> BiographyBusiness BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for Most Original BookMajor1937WinnerSecondary source
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