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by Hannah Pakula

Ching-ling protected by, 637n

  death of, 663

  Kissinger’s meetings with, 640–41, 643

  at Mao’s meeting with Nixon, 642

  in negotiations with KMT, 543

  in peace talks with Nationalists, 573, 574

  in Ping-Pong diplomacy, 640

  and Sian, 270

  Chow, Lien Hwa, 680, 681

  Chow Chin-jou, 285

  Christian Science Monitor, 417, 435, 671

  Chu, Richard, 587

  Chuikov, Vasilii, xii, 363–64, 368n

  Chung, P. N., 369

  Chungking, China, 1, 312, 313, 315–17, 320, 354, 357, 370, 443, 519, 523

  Churchill, Winston, 283, 370, 371, 376–77, 378, 419, 431, 436, 440, 475, 493, 515, 523, 557, 666, 672

  at Atlantic Conference, 365

  at Cairo Conference, 469, 470–71, 475

  at TRIDENT conference, 447, 449–50

  Chu Ta-fu, 93–94

  Chu Teh, xii, 197, 235, 237, 531, 534, 598

  CIA, 580, 597, 603, 633

  Cincinnati Times Star, 305

  Cixi (Tz’u-hsi), xviii, 39–41, 42

  Clapper, Raymond, 423

  Clark-Kerr, Archibald, xii, 376

  Clay, Lucius, 479

  Clines, Francis X., 672–73

  coal, 241

  Coble, Parks, 188, 202–3, 337–38

  Cohen, Morris “Two-Gun,” xii, 80, 130n, 368

  Combined Anglo-American Southeast Asia Command, 519

  Comintern, 83n, 84, 123, 148, 247, 305

  Commerce International Corporation (CIC), 612, 613

  Commission for Aeronautical Affairs, 288

  Communist Party, Chinese (CCP), 104, 122, 124, 125, 128, 149–50, 151, 153, 155, 188, 258, 305, 365, 512–15, 583

  in attempt to take over KMT, 135, 139–41

  and Chiang’s takeover of Manchuria, 533

  condolences for Ching-kuo from, 668

  Mao’s purge of, 353

  Nationalist defection to, 562, 573

  opening congress of, 83–84

  at San Francisco Conference, 517

  and Sian incident, 270, 271

  Soviet support for, 525, 547

  uprisings of, 197–98

  see also Chinese Civil War; Long March

  compradores, 37, 103

  concubines, 28, 39–40, 41

  Confucius, 30–31, 61, 73, 83, 88, 215, 231, 314, 394, 445, 660n

  Congressional Record, 600

  Conner, Fox, 368

  Considine, Bob, 424

  Cooke, Charles M., Jr., 612

  Coolidge, Calvin, 150–51

  coolies, 14, 35, 36, 66, 74, 78, 91, 149, 224, 233, 240, 276, 309

  Corcoran, Thomas, xii, 362–63, 392, 555

  Cotton Goods Exchange, 336

  Coward, Noel, xii, 494

  Cowles, Gardner “Mike,” xii, 405, 409–10, 411, 433, 434

  Cox, Tricia Nixon, 672

  Cripps, Stafford, 318–19

  Crozier, Brian, 197, 222n, 223, 269n, 291, 311, 313, 335–36, 350, 353, 366, 376, 535, 536, 555, 569, 590, 599, 613, 618, 620, 622–23

  Cultural Revolution, 198n, 636–37, 662, 663

  Currency Reserve Board, 336

  Currie, Lauchlin, xiii, 317n, 360–61, 362, 365, 389, 395, 396, 400–402, 404, 432, 437, 458, 509n, 555

  C. V. Starr, 648

  Daily Mail (London), 503

  Dairen, China, 516, 525–26, 534

  Davies, John Paton, Jr., xiii, 402n, 411, 475, 476, 512, 514, 518n, 529, 730–31

  D-Day, 457, 485

  De Gaulle, Charles, 626

  de Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur, 422

  DeLacy, Hugh, 533

  DeLong, Thomas A., 25, 69n, 119, 414, 440, 577, 619, 659

  Democratic League, 542

  Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwanese, 667, 671, 680n

  de Montebello, Philippe, 674

  Deng Xiao-ping, xiii, 232n, 569, 662

  Des Moines Register, 421

  Dewey, Thomas E., 430

  Dill, John, 446

  Disbandment Commission, 200

  DIXIE, 511–12

  Dole, Robert, xiii, 672, 673

  Donald, William Henry, xiii, 228, 239–41, 251–52, 286, 306–7, 314, 318, 319, 404n

  as aid to May-ling, 243–44, 260, 291, 296, 299, 304, 305, 313, 320

  in car accident, 277

  Chinese corruption criticized by, 227, 240, 241

  departure from China, 338–39

  hospitalization and death of, 546–47

  letters on Japanese war to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. by, 306–7, 310–11

  manifesto proclaiming Chinese republic written by, 223

  in Sian, 256–57, 259, 260, 262, 264, 270

  on Sun Yat-sen, 56

  on tour of China, 241, 242, 243

  T.V. disliked by, 331

  Dong, Stella, 575

  Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” xiii, 458–59, 482

  Doolittle, James H., 418

  Dorn, Frank, xiii, 1, 380, 384, 390–91, 402, 453, 483–85, 507, 508, 509–10, 512, 514–15, 518, 519

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 580

  Dowager Empress of China, see Cixi

  Dragon Throne, 34, 41

  Drum, Hugh A., 372

  Drummond-Hay, Grace, 305

  Dulles, John Foster, xiii, 614, 618, 619, 620, 666, 731

  du Pont, 309

  Durdin, Tillman, 319

  Du Vee-pin, 561n

  Du Yueh-sen (“Big-Eared Du”), xiii, 105, 106–7, 151, 181, 186, 334, 336, 338, 344–45, 459, 560, 561n

  Dynamo Electric Plant, 247

  Dzungaria, 31n

  Eastman, Lloyd, 180n, 218, 220, 558, 559

  Economic Committee, 331

  Economic Cooperation Authority (ECA), 558

  Economic Information, Bureau of, 223

  Economist, 666

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 544–45, 604, 607, 614, 618, 620, 621, 666, 672

  Elgin, Lord, 34, 35

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 488n

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 545

  eunuchs, 28–30, 34, 40, 41

  European Entente, 75

  Ever-Victorious Army, 42

  Executive Yuan, 225, 331, 332, 338, 465, 481, 522, 570, 582, 591, 612

  “face,” concept of, 39

  Faina (Ching-kuo’s wife), 248

  Fairbank, John, xiii, 57, 58, 78, 103, 104, 405, 445, 446, 469–70, 477, 625

  Faison, Seth, 679

  Falkenhausen, Alexander von, xiii, 310

  Fang, Doctor, 249

  “Farewell Leighton Stuart” (Mao), 574

  Farley, J., 424

  Farmer, Rhodes, xiii, 294–95, 299, 302, 355

  Farmer’s Bank of China, 334–35, 573

  Farrar, Straus & Company, 619

  fascism, 207, 218–19

  FBI, 555, 577, 582, 600, 619, 628

  Federal Trade Commission, 557

  Federation of Commercial and Industrial Bodies, 151

  Feis, Herbert, 541

  Fenby, Jonathan, 105n, 225, 359, 412n, 508, 512n

  Feng, Mrs. C. T., 441

  feng shui, 31

  Feng Yu-hsiang, xiii, 76, 77, 162–63, 187, 193, 194, 199, 203–5, 212, 246, 343, 482

  Fessenden, Sterling, 151–52

  Film Censorship Committee of China, 70

  Financial Times, 675

  Fish, Hamilton, 630

  floods, 202, 222, 240

  Flying Tigers, 283, 369n, 380, 403–4, 446, 452, 672

  foot binding, 12, 91

  Forbidden City, 31, 32, 40

  Ford, Gerald, 655

  Foreign Affairs, 639

  Foreign Affairs and Relations Committee, 554

  Foreign Affairs Ministry, Chinese, 32, 41, 121, 190, 205, 225, 248

  Formosa, see Taiwan

  Fortune, 143, 331, 358, 364, 427

  Fou Foong Mills, Ltd., 16

  Four Queens, The (Lary), 488

  Fox Movietone News, 224


  France, 34–35, 43, 122, 136, 283, 341, 357, 358, 359, 516, 626, 652

  Free China Fortnightly, 624, 625

  Fudan University, 317

  Fukien, 230, 596

  Fulbright, William, 631–32

  Fussell, Paul, 460

  Fu Tso-yi, 568

  Gabrielson, Eric, xiii, 6

  Gandhi, Mohandas, xiii, 376, 377

  Gang of Four, 637, 663

  Garvey, Dorothy, 506, 576, 619–20

  Gauss, Clarence E., xiii, 243, 375, 376, 405, 406, 479, 489, 490, 500, 509, 517n, 533

  Geary Act, 20, 422

  Gellhorn, Martha, xiv, 325–27, 340n, 465

  General Jewish Workers’ Union, 123

  Genghis Khan, 242

  George IV, King of England, 272, 340

  German Military Mission, 218

  Germany, 43, 59, 75, 218–19, 284, 339, 399, 413, 475, 516

  Gettysburg Address, 618

  Gittings, John, 420

  Gleason, Frank, 495

  Globe, 52

  Gluckman, Ron, 677

  gold, 452, 524, 536, 556, 560, 570, 588

  Gold, Martin, 711

  Good Housekeeping, 616

  Goodwin, William J., 578

  Gordon, Charles G. “Chinese,” 42

  Gould, Randall, xiv, 321–22, 481, 563

  Graham, Billy, 655

  Graham, Katherine, 665

  Great Britain, 32–34, 36, 43, 106, 122, 128, 129, 135–36, 146, 147, 152, 206, 275, 280, 334, 357, 358, 359, 385, 389, 415, 436, 445, 515, 577, 652

  Chinese differences over Burma with, 370–71, 385, 389, 390, 404, 448, 492–93

  Lend-Lease to, 400

  Great Depression, 221–22

  Great Wall of China, 32, 192, 429–30

  Greece, 552, 553

  Green Gang, 93, 104, 106, 149, 151, 152, 160, 344–45

  Grew, Joseph C., 292

  griffin, 36–37

  Guam Doctrine, 639

  Guangxu, emperor of China (Kuang-hsu), 42, 44, 231

  Guerry, Judge, 19, 22–23

  Guideposts, 675

  Gunther, Frances, 414

  Gunther, John, 77, 414

  Hahn, Emily, 148, 170, 197, 325, 332, 595, 596, 605

  Hainan, China, 5, 10, 11, 596

  Hakka General, xiv, 93, 94, 95, 97–98, 125, 129, 133–34, 136, 154, 246

  Halliday, Jon, 83n, 237n, 243n, 352, 357, 559n, 640

  Hand, Lloyd, 628

  Hankow, China, 146, 151, 152, 161, 296

  Hann Hong Jos’k, 7–8

  Han Suyin, 93n, 127, 145, 202, 204–5, 276, 354, 356, 368

  Harper’s, 113

  Harriman, W. Averell, xiv, 490, 523, 525, 526–27, 601, 622

  Hart, Robert, xiv, 41, 58, 104

  Hauser, Ernest O., 339–40

  Hawaii, 47, 50

  Hay, John, xiv, 43, 659

  Hedin, Sven, 243, 269

  Helms, Jesse, 672

  Hemingway, Ernest, 325, 326, 327, 708–9

  Hill, Lawrence, 180n

  Hillcrest, 675–76

  Hiroshima, Japan, 527

  Hitler, Adolf, 207, 218, 291n, 308, 320, 340–41, 358, 364, 365, 421, 424n, 524, 579

  “H.K.” (suitor), 67, 68–69

  Ho Chien, 259, 260, 384, 521, 574

  Hoffman, Paul G., 431n, 566

  Ho Hsiang-ning, 172

  Holbrook, Roy, II, 283

  Hong Kong, 34, 50, 54, 280, 323, 324–25, 361, 367, 368, 447, 561, 575, 582, 599, 613

  Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 275

  Hoong Lok, 134

  Hoover, J. Edgar, xiv, 619

  Hopkins, Harry, xiv, 342, 366, 395, 400–401, 413, 414–15, 448, 450, 454, 470, 473, 475, 492, 498, 517, 525, 555

  Hopper, Hedda, 429

  Hornbeck, Stanley K., xiv, 450, 602

  House Beautiful, 113

  House Foreign Affairs Committee, 553

  Howard, Roy, xiv, 221, 563, 618

  Ho Ying-chin, xiv, 313, 314, 402n, 461–62, 482, 493, 497, 500

  Hsiang, Colonel V. S., xiv, 611–13

  Hsien-feng, emperor of China, 39, 40–41, 42

  Hsu Chung-chih, xiv, 97, 98, 134–35, 154

  Hsueh Yueh, 486

  Huang, Mama, 88–89, 91

  Huang Jin-rong (“Pockmarked Huang”), xiv, 104–6, 107, 151, 160, 210, 344

  Huangpu Military Academy, 208

  Huang Shao-hung, 571n

  Hu Han-min, xiv, 128, 133, 136, 137

  Hu Lin, 547–49, 562

  Hull, Cordell, 339, 342

  Hull, Helen, 624

  Hump (supply route), 397–98, 404, 446, 449, 451–52, 457, 474, 485, 487, 492, 517n, 523, 556

  Hunan, China, 53, 83, 141, 142, 161, 162, 200

  Hupeh, China, 200

  Hurley, Patrick J., xiv, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 509–10, 512–15, 517, 518, 523–24, 526, 531–32, 533, 557, 730

  Hu Shih, xiv, 83, 610

  Hu Yin, 133

  Hwai-hai, Battle of, 569

  ICHIGO, 485–87

  Ickes, Harold, 564–65

  Imperial City, 31, 32, 39, 40

  Imperial Household Department, Chinese, 39–40

  Imperial Maritime Customs Service, 41, 104

  Imperial Palace, 29

  India, 32–33, 106, 344, 376–77, 385, 386, 390, 391–92, 397–98, 405, 439, 451, 454, 492, 640

  Indonesia, 5

  inflation, 335, 360, 383, 479, 485, 488, 524, 536, 552, 553, 556, 558, 559–60, 589

  Institute for Foreign Languages, 41

  International Anti-Opium Association, 343

  International Banking Consortium, 58, 59

  International Famine Relief Committee, 373

  International Monetary Fund, 505–6

  International News Service, 576

  Isaacs, Harold, 161, 494–95, 511, 520, 522

  Isherwood, Christopher, 280, 296–97

  Italy, 218, 239, 283, 284–85, 341

  Ito, Masanori, 312

  Jacoby, Annalee, 210, 371, 384, 394, 482, 510, 511, 530, 541, 552

  James, William, 666

  Janeway, Eliot, 427

  Japan, 32, 36, 52, 59–60, 65, 75, 78, 80, 89, 90, 114, 130, 152, 179, 190–91, 192–93, 200, 213, 215, 219, 221, 241, 263n, 272, 334, 359, 376–77, 413, 469, 474, 475, 479, 515, 529, 640, 666

  boycotts of, 81–82, 160, 225, 227, 297–98, 308–9

  Chinese tariffs on, 332, 333

  Depression in, 221–22

  and Hitler, 340–41

  opium grown by, 346, 347

  Pearl Harbor attacked by, 323, 367, 368, 370, 412, 422, 424n, 447, 477, 546, 673

  Shanghai attacked by, 225–27, 274–75, 276–80, 281

  Soviet neutrality agreement with, 363–64

  Taiwan ruled by, 587–88

  see also Sino-Japanese War (1894–95); Sino-Japanese War, Second (1937–45)

  Japan Times, 191

  Jardine, Matheson & Co., 35

  Java, 5

  Jehol, China, 227

  Jespersen, T. Christopher, 5

  Jing Chiang-chuan, 214

  Joffe, Adolf, xiv, 121, 164

  Johnson, Lady Bird, 628, 629

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 626, 635

  Johnson, Nelson T., xiv, 235, 243, 290, 299, 318n, 364, 374

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 490, 562, 603

  Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group, 559

  Judd, Walter, xv, 426–27, 496, 557, 577–78, 611, 630, 660

  Kalgan, 548–49

  Kang Hsi, Emperor of China, 365

  Kang You-wei, 43–44

  Kapital, Das (Marx), 123

  Kellogg-Briand Pact, 279

  Kendall, Don, 640

  Kennan, George, 523

  Kennedy, John F., 622, 634

  Kennedy, Joseph, 424, 440–41, 506

  Kennedy, Thomas L., 184

  Kerr, George H., xv, 481, 588, 590, 591, 597

  Khayyam, Omar, 565

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 640n

 
Kiangwan International Race Club, 100

  Kissanka, xv, 138, 140

  Kissinger, Henry, 625, 639, 640–42

  Kitchen Debate, 640n

  Knowland, William, 577, 578, 600

  Knox, Frank, 404

  Kobe, Japan, 21, 50, 60

  Koen, Ross Y., 555, 612

  Kohlberg, Alfred, xv, 557, 577

  Kong, Prince, 41–42

  Koo, Wellington, xv, 131, 206n, 423–24, 425, 448, 563, 580, 612, 614

  Korea, 42, 81, 241, 474, 587

  Korea (ship), 20–21, 22

  Korean War, 579, 598, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 617, 631

  Kriebel, Hermann, 218

  Kung, David (Ling Kai), xv, 138, 417, 425, 432, 441, 442, 447–48, 454, 459, 463, 490, 505, 561, 563, 629, 659, 660, 662

  Kung, Hsiang-hsi (H.H.), xv, 60–61, 109, 131, 138, 158, 159, 171, 173, 174, 175, 182, 217, 259, 269, 290, 313, 314, 318, 323, 325, 327, 360, 406, 456, 459, 476, 498, 505, 547, 660n, 675

  accusations of corruption against, 478, 521, 564

  American aid sought by, 342

  article against Yuan, 62

  death of, 645

  European aid sought by, 340–41

  as finance minister, 333–34, 335, 336–38, 339, 350, 479

  inflation caused by, 335, 383, 479

  marriage of, 61–62

  Oberlin started by, 62

  replaced as finance minister, 521, 536

  resignation of, 331

  T.V.’s rivalry with, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 361, 522, 535, 645

  wealth of, 600

  Kung, Jeanette, 417, 425, 441, 454–55, 463, 505, 521n, 614, 634, 646, 650–52, 671, 672

  Kung, Louis, xv, 504, 505, 572, 579n, 580, 631, 638

  Kung, Prince, 34, 35

  Kung, Rosamonde, xv, 508, 674, 676, 677

  Kung, Soong Ai-ling (Nancy), xvii, 18–19, 62, 65, 66, 101n, 109, 111, 113, 120, 147, 159, 249, 305, 330, 356–57, 411, 415, 456, 591–92, 649, 651, 675

  ambition of, 60, 173, 330

  birth of, 16

  charity work of, 323

  Chiang’s negotiations with, 173–76

  in corruption scandals, 290–91, 327, 336, 337–39, 340n, 489, 521, 556, 564

  death of, 650

  education of, 18, 19, 20–23, 24, 56, 341–42

  escape from Hong Kong, 369–70

  luxuries enjoyed by, 305, 325, 339, 342

  marriage of, 61–62

  May-ling’s marriage arranged by, 169, 172, 174–76, 177, 180

  Mussolini’s meeting with, 341

  personality of, 17, 169, 173, 323–24, 336

  religion of, 118, 605

  Stilwell’s meetings with, 460–62, 463–64, 469, 476–78, 507–8

  at Sun’s death, 131

  as Sun’s secretary, 56, 60, 62

  as teacher, 62

  in trip to Brazil, 503, 504

  Kunming, China, 452–53

  Kuomintang (KMT), 58, 59, 77, 84, 85, 90, 92, 104, 121, 125, 128, 132, 151, 165, 182, 194, 231, 316, 375, 551, 659

 

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