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    The Last Empress

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    Ching-ling protected by, 637n

      death of, 663

      Kissinger’s meetings with, 640–41, 643

      at Mao’s meeting with Nixon, 642

      in negotiations with KMT, 543

      in peace talks with Nationalists, 573, 574

      in Ping-Pong diplomacy, 640

      and Sian, 270

      Chow, Lien Hwa, 680, 681

      Chow Chin-jou, 285

      Christian Science Monitor, 417, 435, 671

      Chu, Richard, 587

      Chuikov, Vasilii, xii, 363–64, 368n

      Chung, P. N., 369

      Chungking, China, 1, 312, 313, 315–17, 320, 354, 357, 370, 443, 519, 523

      Churchill, Winston, 283, 370, 371, 376–77, 378, 419, 431, 436, 440, 475, 493, 515, 523, 557, 666, 672

      at Atlantic Conference, 365

      at Cairo Conference, 469, 470–71, 475

      at TRIDENT conference, 447, 449–50

      Chu Ta-fu, 93–94

      Chu Teh, xii, 197, 235, 237, 531, 534, 598

      CIA, 580, 597, 603, 633

      Cincinnati Times Star, 305

      Cixi (Tz’u-hsi), xviii, 39–41, 42

      Clapper, Raymond, 423

      Clark-Kerr, Archibald, xii, 376

      Clay, Lucius, 479

      Clines, Francis X., 672–73

      coal, 241

      Coble, Parks, 188, 202–3, 337–38

      Cohen, Morris “Two-Gun,” xii, 80, 130n, 368

      Combined Anglo-American Southeast Asia Command, 519

      Comintern, 83n, 84, 123, 148, 247, 305

      Commerce International Corporation (CIC), 612, 613

      Commission for Aeronautical Affairs, 288

      Communist Party, Chinese (CCP), 104, 122, 124, 125, 128, 149–50, 151, 153, 155, 188, 258, 305, 365, 512–15, 583

      in attempt to take over KMT, 135, 139–41

      and Chiang’s takeover of Manchuria, 533

      condolences for Ching-kuo from, 668

      Mao’s purge of, 353

      Nationalist defection to, 562, 573

      opening congress of, 83–84

      at San Francisco Conference, 517

      and Sian incident, 270, 271

      Soviet support for, 525, 547

      uprisings of, 197–98

      see also Chinese Civil War; Long March

      compradores, 37, 103

      concubines, 28, 39–40, 41

      Confucius, 30–31, 61, 73, 83, 88, 215, 231, 314, 394, 445, 660n

      Congressional Record, 600

      Conner, Fox, 368

      Considine, Bob, 424

      Cooke, Charles M., Jr., 612

      Coolidge, Calvin, 150–51

      coolies, 14, 35, 36, 66, 74, 78, 91, 149, 224, 233, 240, 276, 309

      Corcoran, Thomas, xii, 362–63, 392, 555

      Cotton Goods Exchange, 336

      Coward, Noel, xii, 494

      Cowles, Gardner “Mike,” xii, 405, 409–10, 411, 433, 434

      Cox, Tricia Nixon, 672

      Cripps, Stafford, 318–19

      Crozier, Brian, 197, 222n, 223, 269n, 291, 311, 313, 335–36, 350, 353, 366, 376, 535, 536, 555, 569, 590, 599, 613, 618, 620, 622–23

      Cultural Revolution, 198n, 636–37, 662, 663

      Currency Reserve Board, 336

      Currie, Lauchlin, xiii, 317n, 360–61, 362, 365, 389, 395, 396, 400–402, 404, 432, 437, 458, 509n, 555

      C. V. Starr, 648

      Daily Mail (London), 503

      Dairen, China, 516, 525–26, 534

      Davies, John Paton, Jr., xiii, 402n, 411, 475, 476, 512, 514, 518n, 529, 730–31

      D-Day, 457, 485

      De Gaulle, Charles, 626

      de Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur, 422

      DeLacy, Hugh, 533

      DeLong, Thomas A., 25, 69n, 119, 414, 440, 577, 619, 659

      Democratic League, 542

      Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwanese, 667, 671, 680n

      de Montebello, Philippe, 674

      Deng Xiao-ping, xiii, 232n, 569, 662

      Des Moines Register, 421

      Dewey, Thomas E., 430

      Dill, John, 446

      Disbandment Commission, 200

      DIXIE, 511–12

      Dole, Robert, xiii, 672, 673

      Donald, William Henry, xiii, 228, 239–41, 251–52, 286, 306–7, 314, 318, 319, 404n

      as aid to May-ling, 243–44, 260, 291, 296, 299, 304, 305, 313, 320

      in car accident, 277

      Chinese corruption criticized by, 227, 240, 241

      departure from China, 338–39

      hospitalization and death of, 546–47

      letters on Japanese war to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. by, 306–7, 310–11

      manifesto proclaiming Chinese republic written by, 223

      in Sian, 256–57, 259, 260, 262, 264, 270

      on Sun Yat-sen, 56

      on tour of China, 241, 242, 243

      T.V. disliked by, 331

      Dong, Stella, 575

      Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” xiii, 458–59, 482

      Doolittle, James H., 418

      Dorn, Frank, xiii, 1, 380, 384, 390–91, 402, 453, 483–85, 507, 508, 509–10, 512, 514–15, 518, 519

      Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 580

      Dowager Empress of China, see Cixi

      Dragon Throne, 34, 41

      Drum, Hugh A., 372

      Drummond-Hay, Grace, 305

      Dulles, John Foster, xiii, 614, 618, 619, 620, 666, 731

      du Pont, 309

      Durdin, Tillman, 319

      Du Vee-pin, 561n

      Du Yueh-sen (“Big-Eared Du”), xiii, 105, 106–7, 151, 181, 186, 334, 336, 338, 344–45, 459, 560, 561n

      Dynamo Electric Plant, 247

      Dzungaria, 31n

      Eastman, Lloyd, 180n, 218, 220, 558, 559

      Economic Committee, 331

      Economic Cooperation Authority (ECA), 558

      Economic Information, Bureau of, 223

      Economist, 666

      Eisenhower, Dwight D., 544–45, 604, 607, 614, 618, 620, 621, 666, 672

      Elgin, Lord, 34, 35

      Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 488n

      Encyclopaedia Britannica, 545

      eunuchs, 28–30, 34, 40, 41

      European Entente, 75

      Ever-Victorious Army, 42

      Executive Yuan, 225, 331, 332, 338, 465, 481, 522, 570, 582, 591, 612

      “face,” concept of, 39

      Faina (Ching-kuo’s wife), 248

      Fairbank, John, xiii, 57, 58, 78, 103, 104, 405, 445, 446, 469–70, 477, 625

      Faison, Seth, 679

      Falkenhausen, Alexander von, xiii, 310

      Fang, Doctor, 249

      “Farewell Leighton Stuart” (Mao), 574

      Farley, J., 424

      Farmer, Rhodes, xiii, 294–95, 299, 302, 355

      Farmer’s Bank of China, 334–35, 573

      Farrar, Straus & Company, 619

      fascism, 207, 218–19

      FBI, 555, 577, 582, 600, 619, 628

      Federal Trade Commission, 557

      Federation of Commercial and Industrial Bodies, 151

      Feis, Herbert, 541

      Fenby, Jonathan, 105n, 225, 359, 412n, 508, 512n

      Feng, Mrs. C. T., 441

      feng shui, 31

      Feng Yu-hsiang, xiii, 76, 77, 162–63, 187, 193, 194, 199, 203–5, 212, 246, 343, 482

      Fessenden, Sterling, 151–52

      Film Censorship Committee of China, 70

      Financial Times, 675

      Fish, Hamilton, 630

      floods, 202, 222, 240

      Flying Tigers, 283, 369n, 380, 403–4, 446, 452, 672

      foot binding, 12, 91

      Forbidden City, 31, 32, 40

      Ford, Gerald, 655

      Foreign Affairs, 639

      Foreign Affairs and Relations Committee, 554

      Foreign Affairs Ministry, Chinese, 32, 41, 121, 190, 205, 225, 248

      Formosa, see Taiwan

      Fortune, 143, 331, 358, 364, 427

      Fou Foong Mills, Ltd., 16

      Four Queens, The (Lary), 488

      Fox Movietone News, 224


      France, 34–35, 43, 122, 136, 283, 341, 357, 358, 359, 516, 626, 652

      Free China Fortnightly, 624, 625

      Fudan University, 317

      Fukien, 230, 596

      Fulbright, William, 631–32

      Fussell, Paul, 460

      Fu Tso-yi, 568

      Gabrielson, Eric, xiii, 6

      Gandhi, Mohandas, xiii, 376, 377

      Gang of Four, 637, 663

      Garvey, Dorothy, 506, 576, 619–20

      Gauss, Clarence E., xiii, 243, 375, 376, 405, 406, 479, 489, 490, 500, 509, 517n, 533

      Geary Act, 20, 422

      Gellhorn, Martha, xiv, 325–27, 340n, 465

      General Jewish Workers’ Union, 123

      Genghis Khan, 242

      George IV, King of England, 272, 340

      German Military Mission, 218

      Germany, 43, 59, 75, 218–19, 284, 339, 399, 413, 475, 516

      Gettysburg Address, 618

      Gittings, John, 420

      Gleason, Frank, 495

      Globe, 52

      Gluckman, Ron, 677

      gold, 452, 524, 536, 556, 560, 570, 588

      Gold, Martin, 711

      Good Housekeeping, 616

      Goodwin, William J., 578

      Gordon, Charles G. “Chinese,” 42

      Gould, Randall, xiv, 321–22, 481, 563

      Graham, Billy, 655

      Graham, Katherine, 665

      Great Britain, 32–34, 36, 43, 106, 122, 128, 129, 135–36, 146, 147, 152, 206, 275, 280, 334, 357, 358, 359, 385, 389, 415, 436, 445, 515, 577, 652

      Chinese differences over Burma with, 370–71, 385, 389, 390, 404, 448, 492–93

      Lend-Lease to, 400

      Great Depression, 221–22

      Great Wall of China, 32, 192, 429–30

      Greece, 552, 553

      Green Gang, 93, 104, 106, 149, 151, 152, 160, 344–45

      Grew, Joseph C., 292

      griffin, 36–37

      Guam Doctrine, 639

      Guangxu, emperor of China (Kuang-hsu), 42, 44, 231

      Guerry, Judge, 19, 22–23

      Guideposts, 675

      Gunther, Frances, 414

      Gunther, John, 77, 414

      Hahn, Emily, 148, 170, 197, 325, 332, 595, 596, 605

      Hainan, China, 5, 10, 11, 596

      Hakka General, xiv, 93, 94, 95, 97–98, 125, 129, 133–34, 136, 154, 246

      Halliday, Jon, 83n, 237n, 243n, 352, 357, 559n, 640

      Hand, Lloyd, 628

      Hankow, China, 146, 151, 152, 161, 296

      Hann Hong Jos’k, 7–8

      Han Suyin, 93n, 127, 145, 202, 204–5, 276, 354, 356, 368

      Harper’s, 113

      Harriman, W. Averell, xiv, 490, 523, 525, 526–27, 601, 622

      Hart, Robert, xiv, 41, 58, 104

      Hauser, Ernest O., 339–40

      Hawaii, 47, 50

      Hay, John, xiv, 43, 659

      Hedin, Sven, 243, 269

      Helms, Jesse, 672

      Hemingway, Ernest, 325, 326, 327, 708–9

      Hill, Lawrence, 180n

      Hillcrest, 675–76

      Hiroshima, Japan, 527

      Hitler, Adolf, 207, 218, 291n, 308, 320, 340–41, 358, 364, 365, 421, 424n, 524, 579

      “H.K.” (suitor), 67, 68–69

      Ho Chien, 259, 260, 384, 521, 574

      Hoffman, Paul G., 431n, 566

      Ho Hsiang-ning, 172

      Holbrook, Roy, II, 283

      Hong Kong, 34, 50, 54, 280, 323, 324–25, 361, 367, 368, 447, 561, 575, 582, 599, 613

      Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 275

      Hoong Lok, 134

      Hoover, J. Edgar, xiv, 619

      Hopkins, Harry, xiv, 342, 366, 395, 400–401, 413, 414–15, 448, 450, 454, 470, 473, 475, 492, 498, 517, 525, 555

      Hopper, Hedda, 429

      Hornbeck, Stanley K., xiv, 450, 602

      House Beautiful, 113

      House Foreign Affairs Committee, 553

      Howard, Roy, xiv, 221, 563, 618

      Ho Ying-chin, xiv, 313, 314, 402n, 461–62, 482, 493, 497, 500

      Hsiang, Colonel V. S., xiv, 611–13

      Hsien-feng, emperor of China, 39, 40–41, 42

      Hsu Chung-chih, xiv, 97, 98, 134–35, 154

      Hsueh Yueh, 486

      Huang, Mama, 88–89, 91

      Huang Jin-rong (“Pockmarked Huang”), xiv, 104–6, 107, 151, 160, 210, 344

      Huangpu Military Academy, 208

      Huang Shao-hung, 571n

      Hu Han-min, xiv, 128, 133, 136, 137

      Hu Lin, 547–49, 562

      Hull, Cordell, 339, 342

      Hull, Helen, 624

      Hump (supply route), 397–98, 404, 446, 449, 451–52, 457, 474, 485, 487, 492, 517n, 523, 556

      Hunan, China, 53, 83, 141, 142, 161, 162, 200

      Hupeh, China, 200

      Hurley, Patrick J., xiv, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 509–10, 512–15, 517, 518, 523–24, 526, 531–32, 533, 557, 730

      Hu Shih, xiv, 83, 610

      Hu Yin, 133

      Hwai-hai, Battle of, 569

      ICHIGO, 485–87

      Ickes, Harold, 564–65

      Imperial City, 31, 32, 39, 40

      Imperial Household Department, Chinese, 39–40

      Imperial Maritime Customs Service, 41, 104

      Imperial Palace, 29

      India, 32–33, 106, 344, 376–77, 385, 386, 390, 391–92, 397–98, 405, 439, 451, 454, 492, 640

      Indonesia, 5

      inflation, 335, 360, 383, 479, 485, 488, 524, 536, 552, 553, 556, 558, 559–60, 589

      Institute for Foreign Languages, 41

      International Anti-Opium Association, 343

      International Banking Consortium, 58, 59

      International Famine Relief Committee, 373

      International Monetary Fund, 505–6

      International News Service, 576

      Isaacs, Harold, 161, 494–95, 511, 520, 522

      Isherwood, Christopher, 280, 296–97

      Italy, 218, 239, 283, 284–85, 341

      Ito, Masanori, 312

      Jacoby, Annalee, 210, 371, 384, 394, 482, 510, 511, 530, 541, 552

      James, William, 666

      Janeway, Eliot, 427

      Japan, 32, 36, 52, 59–60, 65, 75, 78, 80, 89, 90, 114, 130, 152, 179, 190–91, 192–93, 200, 213, 215, 219, 221, 241, 263n, 272, 334, 359, 376–77, 413, 469, 474, 475, 479, 515, 529, 640, 666

      boycotts of, 81–82, 160, 225, 227, 297–98, 308–9

      Chinese tariffs on, 332, 333

      Depression in, 221–22

      and Hitler, 340–41

      opium grown by, 346, 347

      Pearl Harbor attacked by, 323, 367, 368, 370, 412, 422, 424n, 447, 477, 546, 673

      Shanghai attacked by, 225–27, 274–75, 276–80, 281

      Soviet neutrality agreement with, 363–64

      Taiwan ruled by, 587–88

      see also Sino-Japanese War (1894–95); Sino-Japanese War, Second (1937–45)

      Japan Times, 191

      Jardine, Matheson & Co., 35

      Java, 5

      Jehol, China, 227

      Jespersen, T. Christopher, 5

      Jing Chiang-chuan, 214

      Joffe, Adolf, xiv, 121, 164

      Johnson, Lady Bird, 628, 629

      Johnson, Lyndon B., 626, 635

      Johnson, Nelson T., xiv, 235, 243, 290, 299, 318n, 364, 374

      Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 490, 562, 603

      Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group, 559

      Judd, Walter, xv, 426–27, 496, 557, 577–78, 611, 630, 660

      Kalgan, 548–49

      Kang Hsi, Emperor of China, 365

      Kang You-wei, 43–44

      Kapital, Das (Marx), 123

      Kellogg-Briand Pact, 279

      Kendall, Don, 640

      Kennan, George, 523

      Kennedy, John F., 622, 634

      Kennedy, Joseph, 424, 440–41, 506

      Kennedy, Thomas L., 184

      Kerr, George H., xv, 481, 588, 590, 591, 597

      Khayyam, Omar, 565

      Khrushchev, Nikita, 640n

     
    Kiangwan International Race Club, 100

      Kissanka, xv, 138, 140

      Kissinger, Henry, 625, 639, 640–42

      Kitchen Debate, 640n

      Knowland, William, 577, 578, 600

      Knox, Frank, 404

      Kobe, Japan, 21, 50, 60

      Koen, Ross Y., 555, 612

      Kohlberg, Alfred, xv, 557, 577

      Kong, Prince, 41–42

      Koo, Wellington, xv, 131, 206n, 423–24, 425, 448, 563, 580, 612, 614

      Korea, 42, 81, 241, 474, 587

      Korea (ship), 20–21, 22

      Korean War, 579, 598, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 617, 631

      Kriebel, Hermann, 218

      Kung, David (Ling Kai), xv, 138, 417, 425, 432, 441, 442, 447–48, 454, 459, 463, 490, 505, 561, 563, 629, 659, 660, 662

      Kung, Hsiang-hsi (H.H.), xv, 60–61, 109, 131, 138, 158, 159, 171, 173, 174, 175, 182, 217, 259, 269, 290, 313, 314, 318, 323, 325, 327, 360, 406, 456, 459, 476, 498, 505, 547, 660n, 675

      accusations of corruption against, 478, 521, 564

      American aid sought by, 342

      article against Yuan, 62

      death of, 645

      European aid sought by, 340–41

      as finance minister, 333–34, 335, 336–38, 339, 350, 479

      inflation caused by, 335, 383, 479

      marriage of, 61–62

      Oberlin started by, 62

      replaced as finance minister, 521, 536

      resignation of, 331

      T.V.’s rivalry with, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 361, 522, 535, 645

      wealth of, 600

      Kung, Jeanette, 417, 425, 441, 454–55, 463, 505, 521n, 614, 634, 646, 650–52, 671, 672

      Kung, Louis, xv, 504, 505, 572, 579n, 580, 631, 638

      Kung, Prince, 34, 35

      Kung, Rosamonde, xv, 508, 674, 676, 677

      Kung, Soong Ai-ling (Nancy), xvii, 18–19, 62, 65, 66, 101n, 109, 111, 113, 120, 147, 159, 249, 305, 330, 356–57, 411, 415, 456, 591–92, 649, 651, 675

      ambition of, 60, 173, 330

      birth of, 16

      charity work of, 323

      Chiang’s negotiations with, 173–76

      in corruption scandals, 290–91, 327, 336, 337–39, 340n, 489, 521, 556, 564

      death of, 650

      education of, 18, 19, 20–23, 24, 56, 341–42

      escape from Hong Kong, 369–70

      luxuries enjoyed by, 305, 325, 339, 342

      marriage of, 61–62

      May-ling’s marriage arranged by, 169, 172, 174–76, 177, 180

      Mussolini’s meeting with, 341

      personality of, 17, 169, 173, 323–24, 336

      religion of, 118, 605

      Stilwell’s meetings with, 460–62, 463–64, 469, 476–78, 507–8

      at Sun’s death, 131

      as Sun’s secretary, 56, 60, 62

      as teacher, 62

      in trip to Brazil, 503, 504

      Kunming, China, 452–53

      Kuomintang (KMT), 58, 59, 77, 84, 85, 90, 92, 104, 121, 125, 128, 132, 151, 165, 182, 194, 231, 316, 375, 551, 659

     


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