In the first half of the twentieth century, the number of Americans who had both the desire and the ability to transmit their opinions on the affairs of China and Japan to America's foreign policy decision-makers was small--fewer than 100 American missionaries, educators, journalists and former diplomats.The Chinese Connection is the story of three important participants in the intensification of America's relationship with East Asia. None of them has been the subject of a previous biography. The experiences of these men reflect much of the American encounter with China and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century: efforts to assist in the modernization of China, responses to Japanese imperialism, and attempts to understand the struggle between communism and nationalism in China.
- ISBN10 0585378126
- ISBN13 9780585378121
- Publish Date December 1978
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Columbia University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English