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THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM IN JAPAN: A Thesis Submitted To The Department of His
by JOHNSON, Dorothy
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[Stanford] 1932. Red buckram, very bright, clean copy, 21.5 x 28 cm., 66+3p., bibliography. College book gift plate, THE PAYSON J. TREAT COLLECTION, small college stamp on title and lower page edge. RARE, OBSCURE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT . *** . Biography of William Henry Donald, who was an Australian, a journalist, soldier of fortune, "unofficial foreign minister of China's first revolutionary government." friends with Sun Yat-sen, Mme. & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and General Claire L. Chennault, founder of the celebrated "A.V.G." later called the heroic "FLYING TIGER", he later became a "FLYING TIGER" member & a fighter pilot. . *** This is a superb biography, giving keen insight to the major events and personalities of China, from the maelstrom of China after the last Emperor. Donald went to China in 1905 and died shortly after leaving in 1948. He served a variety of assortment of governments and peoples in China for some 43 years. His goal was to make a cohesive Chinese government. . *** Per the notes on the dust jacket: "The journalist who time and again scoped the world press. The soldier of fortune who helped overturn the Manchu throne. The daredevil who sighted the guns at the siege of Nanjing. The visionary who insisted that China belonged to the Chinese. The unofficial foreign minister to China's first revolutionary government and a power in each succeeding regime. The man the Japanese hated and feared and hunted ruthlessly but never quite caught." . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . * .
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- THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM IN JAPAN: A Thesis Submitted To The Department of His
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- JOHNSON, Dorothy
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- Japanese Social Science, History, Law, Economics & Eclectic Item;
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