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White Oswald |
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Consul in Japan, 1903-1941 : Oswald White's memoir 'All ambition spent' / / edited by Hugo Read [[electronic resource]] |
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Folkestone : , : Renaissance Books, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Consuls - Great Britain |
Consuls - Japan |
Diplomats - Great Britain |
Diplomats - Japan |
East Asia History 20th century |
Japan Foreign relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Foreign relations Japan |
Japan Politics and government 20th century |
Japan History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword / by Jim Hoare -- Introduction / by Hugo Read -- Preface to 'All ambition spent' -- The Japanese view -- Student interpreter in Tokyo, 1903-1905 -- Tokyo in 1904 and 1905 -- Assistant at Yokohama, 1905-1908 -- Stray notes on language -- Assistant in Corea, 1908-1910 -- Corea in 1909 and 1910 -- Vice-Consul at Yokohama, 1911-1913 -- Vice-Consul at Osaka, 1913-1919 -- Consul at Nagasaki, 1920-1925 -- Consul at Dairen, 1925-1927 -- Consul-General at Seoul, 1928-1931 -- Consul-General at Osaka, 1931-1937 -- Consul-General at Mukden, 1938-1939 -- Consul-General at Tientsin, 1939-1941 -- Anglo-Japanese relations. |
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Not a contemporary diary as such, but a write-up of notes made towards the end of White s career spanning thirty-eight years. Importantly, it includes reflective passages on the momentous developments of the later 1930s, as Japan moved onto a war-footing in China and as Consul-General in the Chinese treaty port of Tianjin |
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under Japanese occupation, White was in the middle of the growing tensions between Britain and Japan. His post-war recollections are also valuable. Like others who had lived and worked in Japan, he sought to come to terms with what had happened to the country in which he had spent so much of his adult life. Along the way he provides fascinating vignettes of his colleagues, some well known, others less so, while his service in Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang) and Tianjin provides fresh material on the Japanese colonial empire. |
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