To Change China: Western Advisers in ChinaFrom “the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today” (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted “to change China” "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country. |
Contents
To God Through the Stars | 3 |
Adam Schall | 17 |
Ferdinand Verbiest | 27 |
Bodies or Souls 34 | 34 |
Chinese girl patient of Peter Parkers | 43 |
Peter Parker | 51 |
Glorious Days of Looting | 57 |
Frederick Townsend Ward and his wife Chang Mei | 71 |
W A P Martin | 137 |
Yale for China | 161 |
Life in the Sun | 184 |
Chiang Kaishek and Feng Yühsiang | 201 |
Overcome All Terrors | 205 |
O J Todd | 213 |
General Albert Wedemeyer decorates Claire Lee Chennault | 255 |
U S A and U S S R | 279 |
Power Patronage Pay 933 | 93 |
Horatio Nelson Lay | 107 |
Trimming the Lamps | 129 |
SinoSoviet harmony in 1955 | 281 |
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