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Book Synopsis John Leighton Stuart’s Political Career in China by : Hao Ping
Download or read book John Leighton Stuart’s Political Career in China written by Hao Ping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary, he was inherently prejudiced against Marxism. As the U.S. ambassador to China, Stuart executed U.S. government's policy, and was finally stereotyped as a symbol of "American imperialism". This book gives a detailed account of Stuart's complicated and deep political involvement in modern China. Stuart had close relationships with Chiang Kai-shek and other high-ranking officials of Kuomingtang (KMT), while he was also an honored guest of Mao Tse-tung and Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During his tenure as the U.S. Ambassador to China, Stuart did implement U.S. government's policy of supporting KMT. But when the CCP's gaining power became inevitable, he took a pragmatic attitude and urged the U.S. government to normalize its diplomatic relations with the Communist Government. These seemingly contradictory behaviors reveal Stuart's complex features and the changeable era. By collecting substantial relevant materials both at home and abroad, both published and unpublished, this book reveals Stuart's multidimensional characters, getting rid of the stereotype. Academic and general readers interested in Stuart, modern Chinese history and Sino-U.S. relations will be attracted by this book.
Book Synopsis An American Missionary in China by : Yu-ming Shaw
Download or read book An American Missionary in China written by Yu-ming Shaw and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When General George C. Marshall was sent to China by President Truman in 1945 to mediate peace between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists, Marshall chose Stuart as Ambassador to help with that mediation and to look after American interests in China. Stuart was the last to hold that post before the Chiang Kai-shek government's move to Taiwan.
Book Synopsis Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador by : John Leighton Stuatt
Download or read book Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador written by John Leighton Stuatt and published by Sanford Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, . . ...
Book Synopsis Imagining the People by : Joshua A. Fogel
Download or read book Imagining the People written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry.
Book Synopsis The Conversion of Missionaries by : Xi Lian
Download or read book The Conversion of Missionaries written by Xi Lian and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many of her fellow missionaries to China, Pearl Buck found that she was not immune to the influence of her adopted home. Some missionaries even found themselves "convert[ed] ... by the Far East." In this book Lian Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions as they developed an appreciation for Chinese religions and culture. Lian Xi uses these stories as windows to understanding the development of a broad theological and cultural liberalism within American Protestant missions, which he examines in the second half of the book.
Book Synopsis From Christ to Confucius by : Albert Monshan Wu
Download or read book From Christ to Confucius written by Albert Monshan Wu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and original study of German missionaries in China, who catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself In this accessibly written and empirically based study, Albert Wu documents how German missionaries—chastened by their failure to convert Chinese people to Christianity—reconsidered their attitudes toward Chinese culture and Confucianism. In time, their increased openness catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself. At a moment when Europe’s Christian population is falling behind those of South America and Africa, Wu’s provocative analysis sheds light on the roots of Christianity’s global shift.
Book Synopsis The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947 by : John Hart Caughey
Download or read book The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947 written by John Hart Caughey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies--from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies--are reorganizing crop production. The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company's GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.
Book Synopsis John Leighton Stuart's Missionary-Educator's Career in China by : Hao Ping
Download or read book John Leighton Stuart's Missionary-Educator's Career in China written by Hao Ping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary, he was inherently prejudiced against Marxism. As the U.S. ambassador to China, Stuart executed U.S. government's policy, and was finally stereotyped as a symbol of "American imperialism". This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of Stuart's missionary-educator's career in China. It gives a detailed account of Stuart's missionary activities and contribution to the establishment and development of Yenching University as the founding president in China. Yenching, founded in 1919, left a significant and lasting legacy to Chinese education. It also contributed much to western studies on Asian culture with the Harvard-Yenching Institute established in 1928. By collecting substantial relevant materials both at home and abroad, both published and unpublished, this book reveals the multidimensional and complex features of Stuart, getting rid of the stereotype. Academic and general readers interested in Stuart, missionary education in modern China and modern Chinese history will be attracted by this book.
Book Synopsis John Leighton Stuart’s Political Career in China by : Hao Ping
Download or read book John Leighton Stuart’s Political Career in China written by Hao Ping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary, he was inherently prejudiced against Marxism. As the U.S. ambassador to China, Stuart executed U.S. government's policy, and was finally stereotyped as a symbol of "American imperialism". This book gives a detailed account of Stuart's complicated and deep political involvement in modern China. Stuart had close relationships with Chiang Kai-shek and other high-ranking officials of Kuomingtang (KMT), while he was also an honored guest of Mao Tse-tung and Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During his tenure as the U.S. Ambassador to China, Stuart did implement U.S. government's policy of supporting KMT. But when the CCP's gaining power became inevitable, he took a pragmatic attitude and urged the U.S. government to normalize its diplomatic relations with the Communist Government. These seemingly contradictory behaviors reveal Stuart's complex features and the changeable era. By collecting substantial relevant materials both at home and abroad, both published and unpublished, this book reveals Stuart's multidimensional characters, getting rid of the stereotype. Academic and general readers interested in Stuart, modern Chinese history and Sino-U.S. relations will be attracted by this book.
Download or read book Hearing Things written by Angela Leighton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.
Book Synopsis A Latterday Confucian by : Susan Chan Egan
Download or read book A Latterday Confucian written by Susan Chan Egan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a scholar, William Hung was instrumental in opening China’s rich documentary past to modern scrutiny. As an educator, he helped shape one of twentieth-century China’s most remarkable institutions, Yenching University. A member of the buoyant, Western-educated generation that expected to transform China into a modern, liberal nation, he saw his hopes darken as political turmoil, war with Japan, and the Communist takeover led to a different future. yet his influence was widespread; for his students became leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and he continued to teach in the United States through the 1970s. In 1978, he began recalling his colorful life to Susan Chan Egan in weekly taping sessions. Egan draws on these tapes to let a skillful raconteur tell for himself anecdotes from his life as a religious and academic activist with a flair for the flamboyant. His reminiscences encompass the issues and dilemmas faced by Chinese intellectuals of his period. Among the notables who figured in his life and memories were Hu Shih, H. H. Kung, Henry Winter Luce, John Leighton Stuart, Timothy Lew, and Lu Chihwei. While retaining the flavor of Hung’s reminiscences, Egan explains the evolution and importance of his scholarly work; captures his blend of Confucianism, mystical Christianity, and iconoclastic thought; and describes his effect on those around him. For it was finally his unyielding integrity and personal kindness as much as his accomplishments that caused him to be revered by colleagues and generations of students."
Book Synopsis Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China by : Ping Hao
Download or read book Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China written by Ping Hao and published by Bridge21 Publications LLC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as one of the most distinguished universities in the world, Peking University (PKU or, colloquially, "Beida") has been at the forefront of higher education in China since its inception. Its roots arguably date to the origin of Chinese higher education. Hao Ping traces the intricate evolution of the university, beginning with the preceding institutions that contributed to its establishment, and stretching from the first Opium War of 1839 through the first of several eye-opening defeats for the then-isolated Middle Kingdom to the Xinhai Revolution and the early days of the Republic of China. Hao Ping chronicles the contentious debates between reform-minded leaders who championed Western models of learning and conservatives who favored the traditional schooling and examination system, providing readers with details about the workings of the imperial court as well as the individual officials and scholars involved in Chinese educational reform. This authoritative history of the founding of Peking University defends the university's claim to be the first modern university in China and offers insight into the formation of higher education as it exists in China today.
Book Synopsis John Leighton Stuart's Missionary-Educator's Career in China by : Hao Ping
Download or read book John Leighton Stuart's Missionary-Educator's Career in China written by Hao Ping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary, he was inherently prejudiced against Marxism. As the U.S. ambassador to China, Stuart executed U.S. government's policy, and was finally stereotyped as a symbol of "American imperialism". This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of Stuart's missionary-educator's career in China. It gives a detailed account of Stuart's missionary activities and contribution to the establishment and development of Yenching University as the founding president in China. Yenching, founded in 1919, left a significant and lasting legacy to Chinese education. It also contributed much to western studies on Asian culture with the Harvard-Yenching Institute established in 1928. By collecting substantial relevant materials both at home and abroad, both published and unpublished, this book reveals the multidimensional and complex features of Stuart, getting rid of the stereotype. Academic and general readers interested in Stuart, missionary education in modern China and modern Chinese history will be attracted by this book.
Download or read book Chiang Kai Shek written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Rev. John Leighton Wilson D.D., by : Hampden C Dubose
Download or read book Memoirs of Rev. John Leighton Wilson D.D., written by Hampden C Dubose and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling memoir tells the story of John Leighton Wilson, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who played a pivotal role in the establishment of the church in Africa. Wilson's fascinating life provides insights into the challenges and opportunities facing Christian missionaries in the 19th century, and offers inspiration to all who seek to live out their faith in service to others. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Poems of Mao Zedong by : Zedong Mao
Download or read book The Poems of Mao Zedong written by Zedong Mao and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry.
Book Synopsis An American Missionary in China by : Yu-ming Shaw
Download or read book An American Missionary in China written by Yu-ming Shaw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traced the career of a seminal figure in twentieth-century Chinese-American relations. John Leighton Stuart began his work in China as a missionary in 1904. He moved on to head Yenching University, the leading Christian institution of higher leaning in China. During the Pacific War, Stuart was imprisoned by the Japanese. When General George C. Marshall was sent to China by President Truman in 1945 to mediate peace between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists, Marshall chose Stuart as Ambassador to help with that mediation and to look after American interests in China. Stuart was the last to hold that post before the Chiang Kai-shek government's move to Taiwan. Shaw's research among materials in English, Chinese, and Japanese has produced a richly detailed examination of each phase of Stuart's life. Shaw presents Stuart as a Wilsonian idealist whose combination of liberal, situational values and nationalistic vision put him square in the middle, unable fully to support a Nationalist-led China and positing instead a Nationalist-Communist coalition that would favor the Nationalists and open the door to American influence.
