The China Hands Legacy

Author : Paul Gordon Lauren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315355
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Hands' Legacy written by Paul Gordon Lauren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of American Foreign Service officers and journalists in China during and after World War II—collectively known as "the China Hands"—were accused of disloyalty, and in some cases treason, for reporting on events as they saw them. Faced with the ethical dilemma of what a public official's responsibility is when one believes one's government's

Author : Paul Gordon Lauren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Hand's Legacy written by Paul Gordon Lauren and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ely Jacques Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China hands written by Ely Jacques Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Paton Davies, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206312
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Hand written by John Paton Davies, Jr. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country—which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor.

Author : Ruth Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Fact and the China-hands written by Ruth Peck and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098022
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand written by Paul French and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book – 400 Million Customers – that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan. The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Old China Hands Oral History Project written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Lilley
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586483432
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Hands written by James R. Lilley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale professor took him aside and suggested a career in intelligence, it became clear that he would spend his adult life returning to China again and again. Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the U.S.'s top-ranking diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and finally, ambassador to China. From helping Laotian insurgent forces assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his life tending to America's interests in Asia. In China Hands, he includes three generations of stories from an American family in the Far East, all of them absorbing, some of them exciting, and one, the loss of Lilley's much loved and admired brother, Frank, unremittingly tragic. China Hands is a fascinating memoir of America in Asia, Asia itself, and one especially capable American's personal history.

Author : James A. R. Miles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084517
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Tiananmen written by James A. R. Miles and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From talking to the powerful in Beijing and the peasants in the countryside, an experienced journalist interprets China and its post-Deng future

Author : Paul J. Heer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711164
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. X and the Pacific written by Paul J. Heer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text chronicles and assesses the little-known involvement of US diplomat George F. Kennan - renowned as an expert on the Soviet Union-in US policy toward East Asia, primarily in the early Cold War years.