LEADER 04300nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910463754203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89863-2 010 $a0-8122-0631-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206319 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046113 035 $a(EBL)3441943 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000582504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405998 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547316 035 $a(PQKB)10443147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441943 035 $a(OCoLC)794700782 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17514 035 $a(DE-B1597)449531 035 $a(OCoLC)979623094 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206319 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441943 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642695 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421113 035 $a(OCoLC)843076282 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046113 100 $a20110811d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina Hand$b[electronic resource] $ean autobiography /$fJohn Paton Davies, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 225 0$aHaney Foundation series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4401-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aAt the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950's, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country-which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930's and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor. 410 0$aHaney Foundation Series 606 $aDiplomats$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aDiplomatic and consular service, American$zChina 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zChina 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aChina$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aDiplomatic and consular service, American 676 $a327.2092 676 $aB 700 $aDavies$b John Paton$f1908-1999.$01026543 701 $aCumings$b Bruce$0527235 701 $aPurdum$b Todd S$01026544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463754203321 996 $aChina Hand$92441501 997 $aUNINA