China Hand : : An Autobiography /

China Hand : : An Autobiography / / John Paton Davies, Jr.

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-w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Jr., John Paton Davies,,
MitwirkendeR:
Cumings, Bruce,
Davies, Tiki,
Purdum, Todd S .,
TeilnehmendeR:
Cumings, Bruce.
Purdum, Todd S.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 16 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PART I. LEAVING AND RETURNING
  • I. The Firing
  • II. From China to America
  • III. My Itinerant Education
  • IV. Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor
  • PART II. ''THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT MADE AT YOUR REQUEST NOR FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE''
  • V. To Asia with Stilwell
  • VI. A Moment with Mr. Gandhi
  • VII. Nehru and ''The Problem''
  • VIII. An American in India
  • IX. Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe
  • X.Among the Naga Headhunters
  • PART III. PUBLIC AND PERSONAL DIPLOMACY
  • XI. The Politics of War
  • XII. Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang
  • XIII.The Resurrection of Britain's Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission
  • XVI. Patricia's Passage to India; A Soong Family Fracas
  • PART IV. THE QUESTION OF CHINA
  • XV. Stilwell's Wars
  • XVI. The Generalissimo Versus the General
  • XVII. Meeting Mao
  • XVIII. Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley
  • PART V. MOSCOW NIGHTS AND DAYS
  • XIX. Posted to Moscow
  • XX. Hurley's Opening Salvo
  • XXI. Postwar Moscow xxi Postwar Moscow
  • PART 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''
  • Epilogue
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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