Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador

Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador

Author: John Leighton Stuatt

Publisher: Sanford Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1443721344

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Fifty Years in China THE MEMOIRS OF John Leighton Stuart MISSIONARY AND AMBASSADOR RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK Ambassador Stuart visiting Ming Ling, the Imperial Tomb of Ming Dynasty, 1946. Courtesy LIFE Magazine. Copyright TIME. Inc. Lovingly dedicated to the memory of My Father, John Linton Stuart, My Mother, Mary Horton Stuart, and My Wife, Aline Rodd Stuart Contents Preface, ix Introduction, xi Foreword, 3 i Ancestry and Early Years, 9 2, College and Theological Seminary, 21 3 Back to China, 35 4 Yenching University A Dream that Came True, 49 5 Personal Experiences of Yenching Days, 82 6 Personalities on the Chinese Scene, 100 7 The Japanese Occupation and an Island of Terror, 1 26 8 Incarceration and Release, 137 9 Call to Diplomacy, 160 10 The Dream that Did Not Come True, 177 1 1 Mounting Perplexities, 2, 1 3 12 Behind the BamTboo Curtain, 239 13 To Washington and in Washington, 260 14 Reflections in Retirement, 288 15 The United States and China What Policy Now, 302 Appendix, 315 Index, 341 Illustrations Ambassador Stuart visiting Ming Ling, the Imperial Tomb of Ming Dynasty, 1946. Frontispiece President Chiang Kai-shek and Ambassador Stuart in confer ence at Kuling, summer resort, 1946. Facing page 108 General Marshall and Ambassador Stuart at Nanking, 1946. Facing page 109 President Stuart chatting with a group of newly enrolled stu dents by one of the imperial pillars on campus of Yenching University, 1946. Facing page 140 Ambassador Stuart conferring with Admiral Louis E. Den field, Commander of IL S, Pacific Fleet and Admiral S. S. Cook, in Nanking, 1946. Facing page 141 Mr. Chou En-lai, Chinese Communist leader now Premier and Foreign Minister conferring with Ambassador Stuartin the American Embassy grounds, 1946. Facing page 236 Ambassador Stuart in a sedan-chair ascending Kuling, summer resort, 1946, for a conference with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. F ac n g T a S e 2 37 A delegation of Kuling Elementary Girls School presenting flowers to Ambassador Stuart during an illness in 1946. Facing page 268 President Stuart in front of the Yenching University Admin istration Building in Peiping, 1946. Facing page 269 A Prefatory Note on John Leighton Stuart It is a great pleasure for me and a compliment to be permitted to introduce Dr. John Leighton Stuart. I met Dr. Stuart for the first time at Nanking, China, in the late Spring, as I recall, of 1946. He was returning from a lengthy visit to the United States, recuperating from his years of impris onment by the Japanese, We talked over the current situation, and I was so impressed by his reactions that, later on, I proposed to the Department of State that he be appointed Ambassador to China I was only an Ambassadorial Representative of the President. I took this action because of Dr. Stuarts fifty-odd years experience in China, and his character, his personality and his temperament. With Dr. Stuart beside me, I had more than fifty years of vast experience unprejudiced by personal involvements in Chinese partisanship. On his appointment, I found his advice and leading assistance of invaluable help to me. I doubt if there is anyone whose understanding of Chinese character, history, and political complications equals that of Dr, Stuart. His high standard of integrity made his opinions all the more important. It is the man, the character and the general range of his experi ence which appealed to me. GEORGE CATLETTMARSHALL Introduction John Leighton Stuart, who was born and brought up in Hang chow, China, where both his father and mother were leading missionaries, tells us that in his boyhood he always had an aversion for missionary life Even after his graduation from Hampden-Sydney College, he still confessed his lack of en thusiasm for missionary service. It is difficult to exaggerate the aversion I had developed against going to China as a missionary, . . ...


Engaging China

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Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780231201285

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This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors include academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials.


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Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 230

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Fifty years in China being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day


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Publisher: Association for Asian Studies

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780924304965

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This book demonstrates that transformative processes occurred in Chinese religions during the last decade of the Qing dynasty and the entire Republican period. Focusing on Shanghai and Zhejiang, it delves into the workings of social structures, religious practices, and personal commitments as they evolved during this period of wrenching changes.


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Author: David M. Lampton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-01-11

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 0520215907

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Author: Valerie Steele

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780300087383

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The Hundred-Year Marathon

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Author: Michael Pillsbury

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 162779011X

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One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower. For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the "China Dream" is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot? Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the "hawks" in China's military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders – as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise. Pillsbury also explains how the U.S. government has helped – sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately – to make this "China Dream" come true, and he calls for the United States to implement a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century.


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Author: Craig Clunas

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714124841

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Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), people are aware of the fragility of its porcelain, its rarity and value. But porcelain is just one part of the story of one of the most glorious epoques of China's past. By focusing on the significant years of the early Ming dynasty and through the themes of court people and their lives, extraordinary developments in culture, the military, religion, diplomacy and trade, this book brings the wider history of this fascinating period to colourful life.


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Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307793885

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