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Author:
Davies, John Paton, 1908-1999.
Title:
China Hand, an autobiography / John Paton Davies, Jr.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
x, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Davies, John Paton,--1908-1999.
Diplomats--United States--Biography.
Diplomatic and consular service, American--China.
United States--Foreign relations--China.
China--Foreign relations--United States.
China--History--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Pt. I LEAVING AND RETURNING -- I. Firing -- II. From China to America -- III. My Itinerant Education -- IV. Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor -- pt. II "THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT MADE AT YOUR REQUEST NOR FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE" -- V. To Asia with Stilwell -- VI. Moment with Mr. Gandhi -- VII. Nehru and "The Problem" -- VIII. American in India -- IX. Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe -- X. Among the Naga Headhunters -- pt. III PUBLIC AND PERSONAL DIPLOMACY -- XI. Politics of War -- XII. Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang -- XIII. Resurrection of Britain's Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission -- XIV. Patricia's Passage to India; A Soong Family Fracas -- pt. IV QUESTION OF CHINA -- XV. Stilwell's Wars -- XVI. Generalissimo Versus the General -- XVII. Meeting Mao -- XVIII. Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley -- pt. V MOSCOW NIGHTS AND DAYS -- XIX. Posted to Moscow -- XX. Hurley's Opening Salvo -- XXI. Postwar Moscow -- pt. VI AT WAR AT HOME -- XXII. Returning to America, and the China Lobby -- XXIII. Assigned to Kennan's Policy Planning Staff -- XXIV. Working with the National Security Council -- XXV. Revisiting Asia in 1948 -- XXVI. "The Most Nefarious Campaign of Half-Truths and Untruth in the History of the Republic"
ISBN:
081224401X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812244014 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)747331874
LCCN:
2011033181
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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