After Liu Manqing’s return to Nanjing, she began to write her book, A Mission to Xikang and Tibet. In the summer of 1931, she entrusted her book to Commercial Press in Shanghai for publishing; in January 1932, when the books had been printed and bound and were ready for distribution, they were destroyed in a Japanese bombing. Fortunately, the original manuscript was found in the ashes and the handwriting was still legible; less fortunately, over 30 inscriptions by Chiang Kai-shek and other personages and celebrities were burned. In 1933, Liu Manqing’s book was reprinted.

Source：A Mission to Xikang and Tibet, Commercial Press, 1933