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| ABEND, Hallett. |
| CHAOS IN ASIA. The orgins of the Japanese war on China, Maro-Polo Bridge indident, disorder in China, North China, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai after two years of torture, Hong Kong's plight, Canton ruined, thirty million homeless, Out With the White Man, Japan's side of it all, news & propaganda, worst foot forward. Japan's anati-foreignism...A very important book on the interjection of Japan's will on China. The actual events and results. A very good, solid resource on the global prob- lem in China & N. China. Click for available editions |
| CHAOS IN ASIA. The orgins of the Japanese war on China, Maro-Polo Bridge indident, disorder in China, North China, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai after two years of torture, Hong Kong's plight, Canton ruined, thirty million homeless, Out With the White Man, Japan's side of it all, news & propaganda, worst foot forward. Japan's anati-foreignism...A very important book on the interjection of Japan's will on China. The actual events and results. A very good, solid resource on the global prob- lem in China & N. China. Click for available editions |
| JAPAN UNMASKED. A keen insight to the Japanese advance in S.E. Asia in the late 1930's. Her search for raw materials: oil, tin, rubber. The pressure applied to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, anti- American sentiment, the military build up. Well written. Click for available editions |
| MY LIFE IN CHINA 1926-1941. AN EXCELLENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN OLD 'CHINA-HAND'& OF JAPAN A vivid account of China's rise as a great power. In 1926, when the author arrived in China Chiang Kai-Shek & his asso- ciates were obscure provincial leaders plotting for the uni- ted China. The Japanese threat to the continent was just a wisper of a rumor. The author follows step by step as Chiang fights for unity in the chaos of warlordism & as Japan moves from intrigue and bluff to military conquest. The author was the corresondent for the New Yor Times. A brilliant eye witness account. Click for available editions |
| MY LIFE IN CHINA 1926-1941. AN EXCELLENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN OLD 'CHINA-HAND'& OF JAPAN A vivid account of China's rise as a great power. In 1926, when the author arrived in China Chiang Kai-Shek & his asso- ciates were obscure provincial leaders plotting for the uni- ted China. The Japanese threat to the continent was just a wisper of a rumor. The author follows step by step as Chiang fights for unity in the chaos of warlordism & as Japan moves from intrigue and bluff to military conquest. The author was the corresondent for the New Yor Times. A brilliant eye witness account. Click for available editions |
| THE GOD FROM THE WEST: A Biography of F. Townsend Ward. The biography of the celebrated military hero who fought in China against the Taipings, and who saved Ningpo. Ward was a military genius, adventurer from Salem Massachusetts. He es- tablished the Ever Victorious Army, saved the Manchu Dynasty and the American & British positions in Shanghai. Click for available editions |
| TORTURED CHINA. An excellent primary resource for the chaos in China. Covers the comparison, desperate cures, if China "Goes Red." Origin & unification, party, government & opposition. Dissolution, famines, opium, propaganda & press. Missionaries, foreign businssmen, finances, armies, railways, disbandment, those German advisers, treaty tangles, the nebulous frontiers, clashing cultures, sidelights, to justify hope, conclusions. Click for available editions |
| TREATY PORTS. A FASCINATING LOOK AT CHINA FROM 1842 Excellent historical perspective on the first ports opened to foreigners in China. History of the last 100 years, opium and slaves, extending the system, missions & the ports, the Southern group, North & up river, Hughes, Stimson & Hoover. Also about Shanghai, how the foreigners transformed this mud flat area into one of China's greatest trade ports. Also on Canton, its aristocracic ladies with bound feet, images of Gods, wily pick pockets, of Tientsin, Tsinanfu, Tsingtao, Chingkiang, Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, Hong Kong, Macao & a host of other fascinating places. Click for available editions |