Old China Hands and the Foreign Office
Author | : Nathan Albert Pelcovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nathan Albert Pelcovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nathan A. Pelcovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Nathan Albert Pelcovits |
Publisher | : New York, King's Crown P |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : British |
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Author | : Maurice Collis |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811215060 |
Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the war between Britain and China that followed. The volume is illustrated with b & w maps, prints, and photographs. Irish-born Collis (1889-1975) served for many years in the Indian Civil Service in Burma and later became a writer and critic in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : James R. Lilley |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786738480 |
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 | : Nathan Albert Pelcovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Paul Gordon Lauren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000315355 |
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 | : Scott Spacek |
Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1637583877 |
It’s 1998, and China’s political and military leaders are torn by ideological divisions. Amid these seething rivalries, Andrew Callahan arrives in Beijing fresh out of Harvard, planning to spend an adventurous year studying Mandarin and teaching at the renowned International Affairs University. The IAU is known as a training ground for diplomats and spies. But Andrew has no idea that his budding relationship with the attractive and self-assured dean’s assistant, Lily Jiang, will also entangle him in a conspiratorial web of worldwide proportions. A CIA officer approaches Andrew and informs him that Lily’s father is a top Chinese general caught in a power struggle. The general wants to defect but won’t do so without his wife and daughter. Even more shocking is that the Agency needs Andrew’s assistance for Lily to evade round-the-clock surveillance and escape to the US. If Andrew agrees, he’ll face lethal odds against China’s ruthless security services to help pull off one of the greatest intelligence coups in American history. If he refuses, it could cost Lily and her family their lives. Set against the backdrop of a beautiful culture at a turbulent time, China Hand is the story of a reluctant spy and a mission whose deadly consequences continue to reverberate today.
Author | : Ely Jacques Kahn |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Robert Bickers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317419022 |
This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, and British aggression towards, and eventual withdrawal from, China.