An American missionary in China : John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American relations / Yu-ming Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Yu-ming.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 158.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 158

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stuart, John Leighton, 1876-1962.

Stuart, John Leighton.

Missionaries--China--Biography.

Missionaries.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

China.

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1992.

Other Title:

John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 1992.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Making of a Missionary (1876-1908)

Religious and Secular Work at Nanking Theological Seminary (1908-1919)

Educational Aims and Emphases

Developing Yenching into a Chinese Institution

Infusing Christianity into Yenching's Students

Stuart and Chinese Politics (1925-1937)

Stuart and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1941)

From Detention Cell to Ambassadorial Chancellery

Stuart and the Marshall Mission (1946)

The Diplomacy of Hope (1947)

The Diplomacy of Perseverance (1948)

The Tortuous Road of a Missionary Diplomat (1949)

The Last Years (1950-1962)

Conclusion

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Select Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.

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ISBN:

9781684172986

1684172985

OCLC:

1001545286

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684172986 DOI