Affairs of China

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First published in 1938, this book aims to be a �true and objective� account of China�s recent history and its present circumstances at the time, drawing on the author�s thirty years of experience as a member of the British consular service in China. The recurrent themes of the period are examined: the efforts of the Chinese leadership to build a new China out of the ruins of the old, their efforts to claim a place of equality among the nations of the world, and the development of the conflict between a resurgent China and the ambitions of Japan. Some of the issues studied were in the process of change and others definitely closed by war � nearly all were affected to some degree.