Author: STANTON, EDWIN F. (SIGNED)
Title: Brief Authority: Excursions of a Common Man in an Uncommon World / Recollections of China and Thailand
Description: London: Robert Hale Limited, 1957. First British Edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. First printed in the US by Harper & Brothers in 1956. "Author was born in 1901 and in 1921 was appointed to the American Legation in Peiping - although his actual diplomatic career began in 1923 when he was named Vice-Consul at Mukden. For the next eighteen years he held various posts in many parts of China, until December 1941 - while he was American Counsul at Shanghai - when the Japanese captured the city and he was interned for several months. Named Consul General at Vancouver in 1945, he left the next year to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, later American Ambassador to Thailand, a post he held until his retirement in 1953.... He saw China and Manchuria in chaos under the warlords. He witnessed the growth of Chinese nationalism, and China's suffering as first the Japanese and then the Communists struggled for ascendency." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Tanning to endpapers. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. An important account of these pivotal years in China, as witnessed by an American diplomat.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Ambassador Thailand China Politics Diplomacy United States USA History Signed; Signed by Author(s). Good in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: Biography Asia