Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador
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Fifty Years in China -THE MEMOIRS OF John Leighton Stuart. Contents include: 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 Stuart in 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. 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 me
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