To change China
Subtitle: Western advisers in China, 1620-1960
By: by Jonathan Spence.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: China -- Relations -- Foreign countries.; China -- Civilization -- Western influences.
Table of contents: title: Schall and Verbiest: to God through the stars.; title: Peter Parker: bodies or souls.; title: Ward and Gordon: glorious days of looting.; title: Lay and Hart: power, patronage, and pay.; title: Martin and Fryer: trimming the lamps.; title: Edward Hume: Yale for China.; title: Mikhail Borodin: life in the sun.; title: Todd and Bethune: overcome all terrors.; title: Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer: a compass for Shangri-La.; title: The last rounds: U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.; title: Conclusion.; title: Chapter notes (p. [294]-325)