Inc Blackstone Audio
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to...