DONALD OF CHINA: The Exclusive Story Of The Mystery Man Of Modern China
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New York [1948], Harper. Gray cloth, end paper maps, bibliography, maps, 374p., 15 x 21.5 cm., very good, clean & solid, faint round stain on front cover, barely noticeable, interior pristine, spine a bit dull.* FIRST & ONLY EDITION * . *** **** *** . . DONALD'S LAST DYING WORDS ARE THIS BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY . . . WILLIAM HENRY DONALD, "DONALD OF CHINA" WAS MANY THINGS . . . NOT ONLY FRIENDS OF SUN YAT-SEN, MME. & GENERAL CHIANG & . . . GENERAL CHENNAULT, COMMANDER & FOUNDER OF THE . . "A.V.G." & "FLYING TIGERS," . . . BUT A LOYAL FRIEND OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA . * WILLIAM HENRY DONALD [1875-1946]: He was an Australian newspaperman, journalist, soldier of Fortune, an "unofficial foreign minister of China's first Revolutionary government." who worked in China from 1903 until the beginning of World War II. . He had considerable direct and indirect influence on events during his 43 year tenure in China. . He was also friends with Sun Yat-sen, Mme. & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and General Claire L. Chennault, founder of the celebrated "A.V.G." ["AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP"] later called the heroic "FLYING TIGERS" of World War II Burma and China. . *** A BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY: DICTATED TO EARL A. SELLE ON DONALD'S DEATH BED IN SHANGHAI: . After a brief visit to New York City in 1945, Donald returned to Shanghai, where he died in 1946. He was farewelled in a state funeral by the government of the Republic of China. . As he lay dying in Shanghai in 1946, Donald dictated his recollections to Earl Albert Selle, who produced a biography called Donald of China. Naturally this book cannot truly be called an 'autobiography' but in essence it is Donald's last dying words. Regardless, this is a record of his 43 years work in China. . This is a superb biography, giving keen insight to the major events and personalities of China, from the maelstrom of China after the last Emperor. Donald went to China in 1905 and died shortly after leaving in 1948. He served a variety of assortment of governments and peoples in China for some 43 years. His goal was to make a cohesive Chinese government. . *** DONALD: ENEMY OF THE JAPANESE: The Japanese invaders in China had dubbed Donald "The evil spirit of China" for his role in advising the Chinese government in their efforts against the invasion. They had offered growing rewards for his capture, dead or alive. . Once they had almost got him, when Zero fighters attacked his plane over China, but his pilot escaped into a cloud bank. . In February 1945, it turned out that they had held him for more than three years, without knowing it was him, in one of the Manila prison camps. Donald had been a prisoner since February 1942, when the Japanese arrested him at Manila when he was on his way back to China from New Zealand via the Philippines. During his captivity, he had used a false name . *** MORE ABOUT DONALD: Per the notes on the dust jacket: "The journalist who time and again scoped the world press. The soldier of fortune who helped overturn the Manchu throne. The daredevil who sighted the guns at the siege of Nanjing. The visionary who insisted that China belonged to the Chinese. The unofficial foreign minister to China's first revolutionary government and a power in each succeeding regime. The man the Japanese hated and feared and hunted ruthlessly but never quite caught." . *** THE KIDNAPPING OF GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK: XIAN INCIDENT . In order to force the issue to establish a united front against the Japanese invasion, Young Marshall Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the infamous Xi'an Incident. Donald was the special envoy to Xi'an sent by Madame Chiang to negotiate for Chiang's release. . He played a pivotal role in convincing his old friend Zhang Xueliang and the CCP to release Chiang. After several rounds of negotiations, Chiang was released to a plane bound for Nanjing escorted by Zhang. When the plane arrived in Nanjing, Zhang was immediately arrested and was incarcer.…
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- DONALD OF CHINA: The Exclusive Story Of The Mystery Man Of Modern China
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- SELLE, Earl Albert
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- CHINA SOCIAL SCIENCE, FOREIGNERS IN CHINA, HONG KONG
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