03576nam 2200697 450 991079630280332120220612173328.01-898823-66-910.1515/9781898823667(CKB)3830000000058955(MiAaPQ)EBC6359736(OCoLC)1129255451(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97770(DE-B1597)612123(DE-B1597)9781898823667(UkCbUP)CR9781898823667(OCoLC)1302166771(EXLCZ)99383000000005895520220610d2017|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConsul in Japan, 1903-1941 Oswald White's memoir 'All ambition spent' /edited by Hugo Read[electronic resource]Folkestone :Renaissance Books,2017.1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Includes index.1-898823-64-2 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.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 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.All ambition spentConsulsGreat BritainBiographyConsulsJapanBiographyDiplomatsGreat BritainBiographyDiplomatsJapanBiographyEast AsiaHistory20th centuryJapanForeign relationsGreat BritainGreat BritainForeign relationsJapanJapanPolitics and government20th centuryJapanHistory20th centurybritain-japan tension.china.japanese colonialism.korea.nagasaki.osaka.yokohama.ConsulsConsulsDiplomatsDiplomats327.41/0092White Oswald1569105Read Hugo.UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910796302803321Consul in Japan, 1903-19413841708UNINA