{"product_id":"china-hand-an-autobiography-hardback-9780812244014","title":"China Hand; An Autobiography (Hardback) 9780812244014","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Paton Davies, Jr. (Author), Todd S. Purdum (Contributions by), Bruce Cumings (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 16 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is low-key but forceful, at times quite deliciously witty. . . . No doubt \u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to students of Chinese history from the 1930s to the 50s and of American diplomacy during the same period, but its greatest value is as the personal testament of a man who was the wholly innocent victim of political opportunism yet retained his sense of personal worth and, equally important, his undying loyalty to the country that had served him so poorly. His life should be an object lesson to everyone.\" (Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) \"The book is filled with vivid personalities and brings to life the fluid strategic situation at the end of the war. Its wry style makes for a delightful read, even though the foreordained outcome suffuses the story with regret.\" (\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e) \"An often funny, always insightful account of an adventurous and wonderful life. John Paton Davies was an American hero-judicious, discreet, and reliable-who deserves to be remembered by a book as good as this one.\" (Nicholas Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e) \"From his battles with Senator McCarthy, to his heroic achievements in the Burmese jungle, from his insightful predictions of the Chinese civil war, to his ultimate dismissal from the U.S. Foreign Service, Davies holds nothing back. Loaded in story and analysis, \u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific book about a fascinating figure in American history.\" (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Lion\u003c\/i\u003e) \"An important book about a pivotal time in America, with relevance for the present and future. As history and biography, \u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is first rate.\" (Dan Rather) \"Among the State Department's 'China Hands' of the 1930s and 40s, John Paton Davies was one of the most eminent, until our domestic debates destroyed his career. \u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping account of that era.\" (Dr. Henry A. Kissinger) \"Davies predicted more accurately than anyone else, prior to the Cold War, what China's course would be during it. We are most fortunate to have his posthumous autobiography available at last, in which he explains, in shrewd and sparkling prose, how he did this. His book is a major new contribution to World War II and early Cold War history.\" (John Lewis Gaddis, author of \u003ci\u003eGeorge F. Kennan: An American Life\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital missing link in the terrible story of America savaging itself politically over the Communist conquest of China. This testimony by a leading victim in that maelstrom of hysteria and falsehood makes sobering reading in today's political climate.\" (Robert MacNeil) \"[This] globetrotting memoir is rich in intrigue, candid, credible, and masterfully told.\" (Andrew Burstein, \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. As a political aide to General Joseph \"Vinegar Joe\" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChina Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e -Todd S. Purdum\u003cbr\u003e PART I. LEAVING AND RETURNING\u003cbr\u003e i The Firing\u003cbr\u003e ii From China to America\u003cbr\u003e iii My Itinerant Education\u003cbr\u003e iv Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor\u003cbr\u003e PART II. ''THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT MADE AT YOUR REQUEST NOR FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE''\u003cbr\u003e v To Asia with Stilwell\u003cbr\u003e vi A Moment with Mr. Gandhi\u003cbr\u003e vii Nehru and ''The Problem''\u003cbr\u003e viii An American in India\u003cbr\u003e ix Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe\u003cbr\u003e x Among the Naga Headhunters\u003cbr\u003e PART III. PUBLIC AND PERSONAL DIPLOMACY\u003cbr\u003e xi The Politics of War\u003cbr\u003e xii Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang\u003cbr\u003e xiii The Resurrection of Britain's Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission\u003cbr\u003e xiv Patricia's Passage to India; A Soong Family Fracas\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. THE QUESTION OF CHINA\u003cbr\u003e xv Stilwell's Wars\u003cbr\u003e xvi The Generalissimo Versus the General\u003cbr\u003e xvii Meeting Mao\u003cbr\u003e xviii Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley\u003cbr\u003e PART V. MOSCOW NIGHTS AND DAYS\u003cbr\u003e xix Posted to Moscow\u003cbr\u003e xx Hurley's Opening Salvo\u003cbr\u003e xxi Postwar Moscow\u003cbr\u003e PART VI. AT WAR AT HOME\u003cbr\u003e xxii Returning to America, and the China Lobby\u003cbr\u003e xxiii Assigned to Kennan's Policy Planning Staff\u003cbr\u003e xxiv Working with the National Security Council\u003cbr\u003e xxv Revisiting Asia in 1948\u003cbr\u003e xxvi ''The Most Nefarious Campaign of Half-Truths and Untruth in the History of the Republic''\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e -Bruce Cumings\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Gallery follows page 240\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734358323480,"sku":"9780812244014","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/china-hand-an-autobiography-hardback-9780812244014","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}