The reporter and the warlords / / Craig Collie

• Autore: Collie Craig
• Pubblicazione: Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (591 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.2510750924
• Soggetto topico: Australians - China; Journalists - China
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER PAGE; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; MAP: CHINA IN THE TIME OF DONALD; PEOPLE FEATURED IN THIS BOOK; CHAPTER 1: A DIFFERENT WORLD; CHAPTER 2: HIDE-AND-SEEK; CHAPTER 3: THE VICEROY; CHAPTER 4: FALL OF THE MANCHUS; CHAPTER 5: HOW WE TOOK PURPLE MOUNTAIN BY STEALTH; CHAPTER 6: AN UNSHINING SUN; CHAPTER 7: 21 DEMANDS; CHAPTER 8: THE DAY OF THE WARLORD; CHAPTER 9: THE YOUNG MARSHAL; CHAPTER 10: THE CURE; CHAPTER 11: MADAME AND THE GENERALISSIMO; CHAPTER 12: THE SI'AN INCIDENT; CHAPTER 13: DISILLUSIONED; CHAPTER 14: ESCAPE AND CAPTURE ; CHAPTER 15: YESTERDAY'S MANEPILOGUE; AUTHOR'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER NOTES
• Sommario/riassunto: Set against a background of the birth of modern China, this is the true story of Australian journalist, Bill Donald, and his role in those turbulent events in the first half of the 20th century. With no agenda other than an unshakeable belief in China's potential, Donald was drawn into the republican revolution as it swept aside the last imperial dynasty, becoming advisor to a succession of idiosyncratic political figures: Sun Yat-sen, a Manchurian warlord and the Chiang Kai-sheks. In his relentless pursuit of China's destiny, he tracked down Russia's Baltic Fleet, cured the warlord of his opi
• Titolo autorizzato: The reporter and the warlords
• ISBN: 1-74269-470-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814793603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II