登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
An American Missionary in China
Yu-ming Shaw
其他書名
John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations
出版BRILL, 2020-03-23
主題History / Asia / GeneralHistory / Middle East / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / MilitaryBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Wars & Conflicts / General
ISBN16841729859781684172986
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rKPaDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋This work traced the career of a seminal figure in twentieth-century Chinese-American relations. John Leighton Stuart began his work in China as a missionary in 1904. He moved on to head Yenching University, the leading Christian institution of higher leaning in China. During the Pacific War, Stuart was imprisoned by the Japanese. When General George C. Marshall was sent to China by President Truman in 1945 to mediate peace between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists, Marshall chose Stuart as Ambassador to help with that mediation and to look after American interests in China. Stuart was the last to hold that post before the Chiang Kai-shek government's move to Taiwan.

Shaw's research among materials in English, Chinese, and Japanese has produced a richly detailed examination of each phase of Stuart's life. Shaw presents Stuart as a Wilsonian idealist whose combination of liberal, situational values and nationalistic vision put him square in the middle, unable fully to support a Nationalist-led China and positing instead a Nationalist-Communist coalition that would favor the Nationalists and open the door to American influence.