Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow: The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang

264 Pages·2011·2.28 MB·English

by  Yee Wah Foo (auth.)

Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow
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Chiang Kaishek’s Last
Ambassador to Moscow
The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang
Yee Wah Foo
SeniorLecturerinPolitics,UniversityofLincoln
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgements xii
NoteonTransliteration xiv
Introduction 1
Part I BeforeMoscow
1 AYoungRevolutionary 13
2 ANewAppointment 26
Part II AttheChineseEmbassy
3 PurposeandManagement 39
4 EntertainingandIntelligence 56
5 DiplomacyandProtocol 69
Part III TheBigFour
6 AlliesatWar,SecondFront 85
7 TheConference 101
Part IV Xinjiang
8 ReturningtotheFold 123
9 GovernorSheng 138
Part V Alliances
10 YaltaandtheFarEasternAgreement 163
11 TheAlliesandSovietSupport 170
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12 Intelligence 178
13 The1945Sino-SovietTreaty 188
Part VI Fu’sMissiontoMoscow
14 LookingBack 209
Notes 218
Bibliography 245
Index 252
List of Figures
Frontispiece Calligraphyatfrontofdiary
Map MapofChina1937–45 xiv
1 FuBingchangandFuYenfang(KittyHo)circa1925 13
2 FuBingchang(left)andSunKe(right),SunYatsen’sson
andfuturepremier1948–49 14
3 FuBingchang,GovernorofHainanIsland,1920 17
4 NationalistleadersattheSecondNationalCongressofthe
Kuomintang,Canton(Guangzhou),January1926.Atthe
front,WangJingwei(secondleft);ChiangKaishek(fourth
left);MichaelBorodin(fifthleft);SongZiwen(sixthleft);
EugeneChen(ChenYouren)(thirdright);HeXiangning
(secondright);SongQingling(MadameSunYatsen)(first
right) 20
5 MichaelBorodinandMorrisCohen.Cohen(1887–1970)
wasinitiallySunYatsen’sbodyguard,andworkedto
securearmsandammunitionfortheKuomintang 21
6 Lefttoright,ChiangKaishek,WangChonghui,Hu
Hanmin,WuChaoshu.TangshanHotSprings,Nanking
(Nanjing),1929.Someauthoritiesdatethisphotographto
April1927andtheestablishmentoftheNationalist
GovernmentatNankingbytheKuomintang 22
7 JiangFangling(Fanny)1942 27
8 On6February1943,FuBingchangflewfromSanHuBa
airportinChongqingforKuybyshev,totakeuphisnew
postastheChineseAmbassadortoSovietRussia.Centre,
FuBingchangwithFuYenfang(KittyHo)onhisleft,and
WangChonghuionhisright;XuShaoxian,farright 34
9 FuBingchangwithstaffinMoscow.Rearsecondright,Fu
Bingchang;MissMishina,Fu’sRussianinstructor,sitting
infrontofhim 45
10 MrsAleksandrAfinogenovwithherchildren,Joyce(right)
andSashima,onthestepsoftheirdachaatPeridekuria 50
11 DachaatBolshovo.HuJibang 51
12 DachaatBolshovo.FuBingchangandHuJibang 52
13 Winnersataskicompetition,Moscow1946 52
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