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Consul in Japan, 1903-1941

- Oswald White’s Memoir ‘All Ambition Spent’
Af: Hugo Read Engelsk Hardback

Consul in Japan, 1903-1941

- Oswald White’s Memoir ‘All Ambition Spent’
Af: Hugo Read Engelsk Hardback
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A rare account by a foreigner working in Japan in the 20th century; a unique insight into this important period of Japan''s history; complements existing material. First a student interpreter, then an assistant in Korea, Vice-Consul in Yokohama and Osaka, Consul in Nagasaki and Dairen, then Consul-General in Seoul, Osaka, Mukden and Tientsin. Not a contemporary diary as such, but a write-up of notes made towards the end of White''s career spanning thirty-eight years. Importantly, it includes reflective passages on the momentous developments of the later 1930s, as Japan moved onto a war-footing in China - and as Consul-General in the Chinese treaty port of Tianjin under Japanese occupation, White was in the middle of the growing tensions between Britain and Japan. His post-war recollections are also valuable. Like others who had lived and worked in Japan, he sought to come to terms with what had happened to the country in which he had spent so much of his adult life. Along the way he provides fascinating vignettes of his colleagues, some well known, others less so, while his service in Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang) and Tianjin provides fresh material on the Japanese colonial empire.
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A rare account by a foreigner working in Japan in the 20th century; a unique insight into this important period of Japan''s history; complements existing material. First a student interpreter, then an assistant in Korea, Vice-Consul in Yokohama and Osaka, Consul in Nagasaki and Dairen, then Consul-General in Seoul, Osaka, Mukden and Tientsin. Not a contemporary diary as such, but a write-up of notes made towards the end of White''s career spanning thirty-eight years. Importantly, it includes reflective passages on the momentous developments of the later 1930s, as Japan moved onto a war-footing in China - and as Consul-General in the Chinese treaty port of Tianjin under Japanese occupation, White was in the middle of the growing tensions between Britain and Japan. His post-war recollections are also valuable. Like others who had lived and worked in Japan, he sought to come to terms with what had happened to the country in which he had spent so much of his adult life. Along the way he provides fascinating vignettes of his colleagues, some well known, others less so, while his service in Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang) and Tianjin provides fresh material on the Japanese colonial empire.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9781898823643
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1898823642
Kategori: 1900 til 1910
Udg. Dato: 1 jul 2017
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 146mm
Højde: 224mm
Forlag: Global Books
Oplagsdato: 1 jul 2017
Forfatter(e): Hugo Read
Forfatter(e) Hugo Read

Kategori 1900 til 1910

ISBN-13 9781898823643

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 232

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 146mm

Højde 224mm

Udg. Dato 1 jul 2017

Oplagsdato 1 jul 2017

Forlag Global Books