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China Hand, an autobiography
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"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. ...
"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"--Dust jacket flap.
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- Creator
- John Paton Davies, Jr
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- English
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- First edition
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- ©2012
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- x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812206319, 0812206312, 9781283898638, 1283898632, 9780812244014, 081224401X
- OCLC
- ocn747331874, ocn843076282
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- XIV. Patricia's passage to India; a Soong family fracas -- pt. IV. The question of China -- XV. Stilwell's wars -- XVI. The 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."