My life in China, 1926-1941

My life in China, 1926-1941 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abend, Hallett, 1884-1955 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1912-1949
Eastern question (Far East)
Journalists > Biography.
Journalists > Correspondence.
Question d'Orient (Extrême-Orient)
Journalists.
China > History > Republic, 1912-1949.
Chine > Histoire > 1912-1949 (République)
China.
Autobiography
Biography
Personal correspondence.
Biographies.
History.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • China awakes:
  • Guessing wrong
  • Imperialist outpost
  • Chungking's origins
  • Summer of discontent
  • Peking, old style
  • A plum lands in my lap
  • Martial interlude
  • Off to the wars
  • The life that was
  • Officially and outcast
  • A truce and a perfidy
  • Intolerance and deception
  • Japan marches:
  • No one would believe it!
  • Pattern for conquest
  • Dirty Yen and itching palms
  • Thirty-five thousand die
  • The years between
  • Trying conspiracy first
  • Summer, 1936
  • Betrayal and triumph
  • Trouble with Moscow
  • Chiang Kai-Shek listened
  • Terror and death
  • Japan's worst "Bad boy"
  • The heavy hand of power
  • Ominous interlude
  • The world at war:
  • Unheeded warnings
  • Faint hope for peace
  • Another feeler
  • The nipps get nasty
  • Confusion in high places
  • Terrorism
  • Plot and counterplot
  • Disillusion and dismay
  • China for the Chinese
  • Europe will be easy, by comparison

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