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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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Autore: White Oswald Visualizza persona
Titolo: Consul in Japan, 1903-1941 : Oswald White's memoir 'All ambition spent' / / edited by Hugo Read [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Folkestone : , : Renaissance Books, , 2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 327.41/0092
Soggetto topico: Consuls - Great Britain
Consuls - Japan
Diplomats - Great Britain
Diplomats - Japan
Soggetto geografico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: britain-japan tension
china
japanese colonialism
korea
nagasaki
osaka
yokohama
Persona (resp. second.): ReadHugo
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: All ambition spent
Titolo autorizzato: Consul in Japan, 1903-1941  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-898823-66-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796302803321
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