LEADER 03576nam 2200697 450 001 9910796302803321 005 20220612173328.0 010 $a1-898823-66-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781898823667 035 $a(CKB)3830000000058955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6359736 035 $a(OCoLC)1129255451 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97770 035 $a(DE-B1597)612123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781898823667 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781898823667 035 $a(OCoLC)1302166771 035 $a(EXLCZ)993830000000058955 100 $a20220610d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConsul in Japan, 1903-1941 $eOswald White's memoir 'All ambition spent' /$fedited by Hugo Read$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aFolkestone :$cRenaissance Books,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-898823-64-2 327 $aForeword / 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. 330 $aNot 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. 517 3 $aAll ambition spent 606 $aConsuls$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aConsuls$zJapan$vBiography 606 $aDiplomats$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aDiplomats$zJapan$vBiography 607 $aEast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xHistory$y20th century 610 $abritain-japan tension. 610 $achina. 610 $ajapanese colonialism. 610 $akorea. 610 $anagasaki. 610 $aosaka. 610 $ayokohama. 615 0$aConsuls 615 0$aConsuls 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aDiplomats 676 $a327.41/0092 700 $aWhite$b Oswald$01569105 702 $aRead$b Hugo. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796302803321 996 $aConsul in Japan, 1903-1941$93841708 997 $aUNINA