The Building of the Burma Road

The purpose of this book is to give an idea of how the Burma Road was built, telling within the framework of the engineering project the story of an achievement by my countrymen. For the sake of the narrative many of the technical details have been omitted. It is to be hoped, however, that both my brother engineering and the general public will find the book of interest. This work represents only one of the many achievements of the Chinese for the war. Without adequate nourishment and equipment they nevertheless got the job done through their spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice which is the precious heritage from out ancestors, and through the persevering determination and foresight of the government. To many people the country through which the Road passes is now only a place on the map, but they will become familiar in the months to come. For that reason, whatever has seemed colorful and unique in the way of customs and background has been set down. In order to make the job and the people who did it as real and alive as possible, little anecdotes of no other consequence have been included. This plain account has been written in all humility while the experience is still fresh in my memory, in the hope that Western readers will derive from it a better understanding of the true spirit of the Chinese people