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UNINA9910463754203321 |
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Autore |
Davies John Paton <1908-1999.> |
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Titolo |
China Hand [[electronic resource] ] : an autobiography / / John Paton Davies, Jr |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
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1-283-89863-2 |
0-8122-0631-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Haney Foundation Series |
Haney Foundation series |
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CumingsBruce |
PurdumTodd S |
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Diplomats - United States |
Diplomatic and consular service, American - China |
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United States Foreign relations China |
China Foreign relations United States |
China History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. Leaving and returning -- pt. 2. "This assignment is not made at your request nor for your convenience" -- pt. 3. Public and personal diplomacy -- pt. 4. The question of China -- pt. 5. Moscow nights and days -- pt. 6. At war at home. |
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At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950's, 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. The son of American missionaries, Davies was |
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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 1930's 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. China Hand 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. |
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UNINA9910456707303321 |
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Autore |
Abrahams Peter H. |
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Illustrated clinical anatomy / / by Peter H. Abrahams, John L. Craven and John S.P. Lumley |
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Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2011 |
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[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Human anatomy |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Cover; Book title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART I: The thorax; PART II: The abdomen; PART III: The back; PART IV: The upper limb; PART V: The lower limb; PART VI: |
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Joint winner - Richard Asher Prize for the best new medical textbook, RSM/Society of Authors Book Awards 2005Highly commended in the 2005 BMA Medical Book Awards: Basic and Clinical Sciences category"A wonderful book, very appropriate, written with extremely good, didactic and smart illustrations! Clinical anatomy at its best!" - Dr Ludmilla Stane, Institute for Anatomy, Dusseldorf.The publication of this new textbook in 2005 represented a major advance in the integration of anatomy teaching with the study of clinical medicine. This new edition builds on this well-received approach, bringing the content entirely up to date with increased emphasis on the conditions most commonly encountered by medical students and junior clinicians in training. |
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