A Mission In China

Author : Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393243086

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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Pdf

An Economist Best Book of 2018 A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics—and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission—this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of “who lost China” roiled American politics. The China Mission traces this neglected turning point and forgotten interlude in a heroic career—a story of not just diplomatic wrangling and guerrilla warfare, but also intricate spycraft and charismatic personalities. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, it offers a richly detailed, gripping, close-up, and often surprising view of the central figures of the time—from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthur—as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.

Author : Mary Laven
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571271788

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Mission to China by Mary Laven Pdf

In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless the Christian message could be brought to them. In this book, Mary Laven tells the extraordinary story of the first Jesuit mission to China. Confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions travelled thousands of miles from southern Europe to the very heart of the empire. In 1601, they gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in the fabled Forbidden City. Living among eunuchs and mandarins, wearing the clothes and reading the books of Confucian scholars, Ricci and his associates strove to master the language and culture of their hosts. At the same time, they energetically preached the virtues of Western art and science. What were the motives of the carpenters and boatmen, the mothers, fathers and children who burned their idols and were cleansed with the waters of baptism? Mary Laven tries to answer these questions, as she brings this remote world vividly to life.

Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Missions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036783491

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A Mission in China by William Edward Soothill Pdf

Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Missions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010458326

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A History of Christian Missions in China by Kenneth Scott Latourette Pdf

Author : John Hart Caughey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442212947

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The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947 by John Hart Caughey Pdf

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies--from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies--are reorganizing crop production. The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company's GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.

Author : W. E. Soothill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330323092

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A Mission in China by W. E. Soothill Pdf

Excerpt from A Mission in China This book is written chiefly for those who, through many years, have loyally lent their support to the work recorded in the following pages, and whose right it is to know more fully that their faith has been met with faithfulness. It was commenced eighteen months ago in response to repeated requests, and with numerous and prolonged periods of interruption, its compilation has occupied the spare moments of that length of time. Herein are recounted some of the experiences met with, and methods followed during nearly a quarter of a century's work amongst the Chinese, a work that has been rewarded by nearly ten thousand conversions, and an increasing confidence in the universal advent of the Kingdom of God. Its principal object is to depict our own Mission, as typical of many others. In addition five chapters will be found at the end, giving in brief an account of the Chinese religions, religions so involved and mutually intermingled that close investigation and considerable reading have been necessary to anything like a clear and succinct delineation. The whole closes with a short history of Christianity in China. It is the misfortune of a book of this character that great demands are made on the first personal pronoun. If the reader finds that letter too oft repeated, his sympathy is craved in consideration of the number of times it has been suppressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Liam Matthew BROCKEY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674028814

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Journey to the East by Liam Matthew BROCKEY Pdf

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038485645

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The Mission Press in China by Anonim Pdf

Author : CHINA MISSION HANDBOOK.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : China
ISBN : NYPL:33433068294234

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The China Mission Hand-book by CHINA MISSION HANDBOOK. Pdf

Author : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. North China Mission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Missions
ISBN : UIUC:30112104274938

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Report of the North China Mission by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. North China Mission Pdf

Author : Joseph W. Ho
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781501760969

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Developing Mission by Joseph W. Ho Pdf

In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States.

Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Missions
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DSZ

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A Typical Mission in China by William Edward Soothill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UOM:39015028145988

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The China Mission Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harlan Page Beach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015005315125

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Dawn on the Hills of T'ang, Or, China as a Mission Field by Harlan Page Beach Pdf

Author : Anne-Marie Brady
Publisher : Merwinasia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1937385019

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A Foreign Missionary on the Long March by Anne-Marie Brady Pdf

In China in the 1920s and 1930s, foreigners were frequently at risk of being captured by bandits and held for ransom. The phenomenon became so common that foreigners who were captured were called "foreign tickets" (yang piao). Because of their unique status in China due to extraterritoriality, foreign captives were more prized than Chinese victims. Successive CCP leaders in various Soviet areas also in the 1920s and 1930s greatly valued the "foreign tickets" they captured. In 1930 there were an estimated twenty-five missionaries in China being held by Communist groups. The foreigners suffered great deprivations in captivity; some were tortured and a small number were killed. The CCP plundered their personal and church possessions and even took funds intended for relief efforts. However, it must be said, that the CCP, like Chinese bandits, tended to treat foreigners slightly better than they did Chinese captives, whose lives were held very cheap. It is in this context that A Foreign Missionary on the Long March, a previously unpublished eyewitness account of the Chinese Communist Party's epoch Long March, so resonates. The author, a New Zealand-born missionary for the China Inland Mission from 1913 to 1945 was captured and held hostage for 413 days by the CCP's Sixth Army from 1934 to 1935. Hayman's grim account of the Red Army in retreat gives a new perspective on the historic Long March, as well as a glimpse of the CCP in the time before Mao came to prominence. It also blurs the line between the Communists and common bandits. CCP historiography has turned the Long March into the founding myth of the PRC. Hayman's memoirs offer a fresh perspective on this crucial period of CCP history and implicitly, in the role it plays in the CCP's current hold on power.