To Change China: Western Advisers in China 1620-19601969 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 65
Page 62
... Shanghai water- front for recruits . In those days , as many as three hundred ships could be found anchored in the harbor ; so it was not a difficult matter to induce layover sailors and navy deserters into joining a high - paying ...
... Shanghai water- front for recruits . In those days , as many as three hundred ships could be found anchored in the harbor ; so it was not a difficult matter to induce layover sailors and navy deserters into joining a high - paying ...
Page 63
... Shanghai to rebuild his army , he was met with hostility and scorn . The Shanghai North China Herald commented in August 1860 : " The first and best item . . . is the utter defeat of Ward and his men before Tsingpu . This notorious man ...
... Shanghai to rebuild his army , he was met with hostility and scorn . The Shanghai North China Herald commented in August 1860 : " The first and best item . . . is the utter defeat of Ward and his men before Tsingpu . This notorious man ...
Page 80
... Shanghai , feared that Bur- gevine , whose popularity among his predominantly American sub- ordinates in the Ever - Victorious Army ran high , was more a danger to the Ch'ing in the Shanghai area than to the Taiping rebels he was ...
... Shanghai , feared that Bur- gevine , whose popularity among his predominantly American sub- ordinates in the Ever - Victorious Army ran high , was more a danger to the Ch'ing in the Shanghai area than to the Taiping rebels he was ...
Contents
To God Through the Stars | 3 |
Bodies or Souls | 34 |
Glorious Days of Looting | 57 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Air Force allied American astronomical attack barbarians began Bethune bomb Borodin British Burgevine Burma Canton Ch'ing Changsha Chennault Chiang Kai-shek China Chinese army Chinese Communists Chinese government Chinese officials Chinese troops Christian Chungking civil Comintern command Consul customs service dynasty Edward Hume Emperor Ever-Victorious Army felt Ferdinand Verbiest fighting foreign Fryer Generalissimo Gordon Hankow hoped hospital Hume to Bevis Hunan Hung-chang Ibid Imperial Japanese Jesuits K'ang-hsi Kunshan Kuomintang Li Hung-chang Manchu military minister mission missionary Nationalist Norman Bethune officers Peking plans political position President Prince Kung province Rebellion rebels returned revolution Ricci Robert Hart Romanus and Sunderland Roosevelt Russian seemed Shanghai Soviet staff Stilwell Papers Stilwell's Sun Yat-sen Sunderland Sungkiang Taiping Taiping Rebellion Tientsin tion Todd told treaty United University Press Verbiest Ward warlords Wedemeyer Western advisers wrote Wuhan Yale Yale-in-China Yangtze York