Fifty Years in China THE MEMOIRS OF John Leighton Stuart MISSIONARY
AND AMBASSADOR RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK Ambassador Stuart visiting
Ming Ling, the Imperial Tomb of Ming Dynasty, 1946. Courtesy LIFE
Magazine. Copyright TIME. Inc. Lovingly dedicated to the memory of
My Father, John Linton Stuart, My Mother, Mary Horton Stuart, and
My Wife, Aline Rodd Stuart Contents Preface, ix Introduction, xi
Foreword, 3 i Ancestry and Early Years, 9 2, College and
Theological Seminary, 21 3 Back to China, 35 4 Yenching University
A Dream that Came True, 49 5 Personal Experiences of Yenching Days,
82 6 Personalities on the Chinese Scene, 100 7 The Japanese
Occupation and an Island of Terror, 1 26 8 Incarceration and
Release, 137 9 Call to Diplomacy, 160 10 The Dream that Did Not
Come True, 177 1 1 Mounting Perplexities, 2, 1 3 12 Behind the
BamTboo Curtain, 239 13 To Washington and in Washington, 260 14
Reflections in Retirement, 288 15 The United States and China What
Policy Now, 302 Appendix, 315 Index, 341 Illustrations Ambassador
Stuart visiting Ming Ling, the Imperial Tomb of Ming Dynasty, 1946.
Frontispiece President Chiang Kai-shek and Ambassador Stuart in
confer ence at Kuling, summer resort, 1946. Facing page 108 General
Marshall and Ambassador Stuart at Nanking, 1946. Facing page 109
President Stuart chatting with a group of newly enrolled stu dents
by one of the imperial pillars on campus of Yenching University,
1946. Facing page 140 Ambassador Stuart conferring with Admiral
Louis E. Den field, Commander of IL S, Pacific Fleet and Admiral S.
S. Cook, in Nanking, 1946. Facing page 141 Mr. Chou En-lai, Chinese
Communist leader now Premier and Foreign Minister conferring with
Ambassador Stuartin the American Embassy grounds, 1946. Facing page
236 Ambassador Stuart in a sedan-chair ascending Kuling, summer
resort, 1946, for a conference with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
F ac n g T a S e 2 37 A delegation of Kuling Elementary Girls
School presenting flowers to Ambassador Stuart during an illness in
1946. Facing page 268 President Stuart in front of the Yenching
University Admin istration Building in Peiping, 1946. Facing page
269 A Prefatory Note on John Leighton Stuart It is a great pleasure
for me and a compliment to be permitted to introduce Dr. John
Leighton Stuart. I met Dr. Stuart for the first time at Nanking,
China, in the late Spring, as I recall, of 1946. He was returning
from a lengthy visit to the United States, recuperating from his
years of impris onment by the Japanese, We talked over the current
situation, and I was so impressed by his reactions that, later on,
I proposed to the Department of State that he be appointed
Ambassador to China I was only an Ambassadorial Representative of
the President. I took this action because of Dr. Stuarts fifty-odd
years experience in China, and his character, his personality and
his temperament. With Dr. Stuart beside me, I had more than fifty
years of vast experience unprejudiced by personal involvements in
Chinese partisanship. On his appointment, I found his advice and
leading assistance of invaluable help to me. I doubt if there is
anyone whose understanding of Chinese character, history, and
political complications equals that of Dr, Stuart. His high
standard of integrity made his opinions all the more important. It
is the man, the character and the general range of his experi ence
which appealed to me. GEORGE CATLETTMARSHALL Introduction John
Leighton Stuart, who was born and brought up in Hang chow, China,
where both his father and mother were leading missionaries, tells
us that in his boyhood he always had an aversion for missionary
life Even after his graduation from Hampden-Sydney College, he
still confessed his lack of en thusiasm for missionary service. It
is difficult to exaggerate the aversion I had developed against
going to China as a missionary, . . ...
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