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    The Last Empress

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      in alliances with Japanese puppet governments, 530

      Blue Shirts’ plan for reforming of, 219

      Carter ends contact with, 664

      Central Executive Committee, 126, 137, 140, 162, 187, 199, 271, 575, 582

      Central Party Headquarters, 213

      Central Political Committee, 139, 140, 330

      Chiang elected leader of, 313

      Chiang expelled from, 154, 156

      Chiang made head of military by, 187

      Ching-kuo made head of, 663

      Communists in key positions, 350

      Congresses of, 125–26, 137–38, 201, 650, 670

      corruption in, 443, 482, 510, 558, 563

      financial problems, 157–58

      Hurley’s defense of, 513, 514

      Liu’s denunciation of, 217–18

      loss of popularity of, 518

      Military Council of, 140, 350

      power struggles in, 133, 135, 139–41, 146, 147, 148, 153, 154, 158, 162–63, 171, 198–99, 229, 239

      Supervisory Committee of, 271

      2000 election lost by, 671

      U.S. embargo on equipment to, 549, 553, 554

      Kurile Islands, 515, 516

      Kwangsi Clique, 93, 94, 558

      Kwantung Army, 93

      Ladies’ Home Journal, 113

      La Guardia, Fiorello, xv, 429

      Lambert, Eleanor, xv, 434, 674

      Lampson, Miles, 206

      Lanius, Anna, 21, 22

      Lansing, Jo, 605

      Laos, 622

      Lapham, Roger, 558–59

      Lary, Diana, 488

      Lattimore, Owen, xv, 27n, 324, 329, 365, 413, 437–38, 489, 490, 491

      League of Nations, 223–24, 226, 234, 279, 282, 302

      Lee, Flora, 678

      Lee, Gien-Feng, 678

      Lee, James Zee-min, 180n

      Lee Teng-hui, xv, 664, 668, 673, 676

      Legislative Yuan, 487, 552, 580, 609, 622, 636, 667, 671n

      LeHand, Missy, 317n

      Lei Chen, 624–25

      Leith-Ross, Frederick, 337

      Lelyveld, Joseph, 600, 633

      Lend-Lease, 203, 362, 363, 366, 368, 371, 372, 375, 395, 399–400, 401, 402, 403, 413, 418, 449, 461, 475, 496, 555, 611–13

      Lenin, V. I., 98, 121, 122, 123, 125–26, 147, 210

      Leonard, Royal, xv, 264, 269, 283, 287, 289–90

      Leong, Karen, 215

      leprosy, 319, 327

      Lewis, John L., 425

      Li, Laura Tyson, 25, 183n, 291, 332, 377, 389, 412n, 572, 647, 649

      Li, Mr., 297

      Li, Pastor, 18

      Li (Naval Forces Bureau director), 139

      Liao Chung-kai, 133, 137, 140, 172

      Liberty, 305

      Li Chen-shen, 201

      Lieberman, Henry R., 536

      Lien Chan, 671

      Life, 304, 331n, 388, 447, 487, 557

      Li Li-san, xv, 198

      Li Ming, 709

      Lincoln, Abraham, 48, 52, 618

      Lin Shiliang, xv, 459–60

      Lin Wei, 387

      Lin Yutang, xv, 30, 460

      Li Ta-chao, 125, 126

      Li Tsung-jen, xv, 188, 201, 482, 558, 569, 570–71, 573, 574, 575, 582, 593

      Litvinov, Maxim, 477

      Liu, General, 125, 129, 133n, 136, 141

      Liu Chen-huan, xvi

      Liu Chien-chun, 217–18

      Liu Chih, 569

      Li Yuan-hung, 53

      Llewellyn, Bernard, 27

      Lo Cho-ying, 402, 403

      Loeb, Robert F., 416, 431, 432

      London, Jack, 21

      London Daily News, 591

      Long March, 237–39, 242–43, 251, 350, 510

      Look, 294

      Lord, Winston, 673

      Los Angeles Times, 438, 664

      Louisville, USS, 534

      Luce, Clare Boothe, xvi, 332, 364–65, 379, 388, 405, 422, 424, 455, 506, 626

      Luce, Henry, xvi, 15n, 304, 309, 331, 332, 364–65, 428, 431n, 447, 487, 555, 578, 629, 680

      Luers, William, 674

      Lu Hao-dong, 47, 49

      Lu Hsun, 322

      Lu Ti-ping, 201, 204

      Lytton, Lord, 224

      McAfee, Mildred, 301–2

      Macao, 20

      MacArthur, Douglas, xvi, 515, 531, 601, 602, 603, 631

      Macauley, Thomas Babington, 102

      McCarthy, Joseph, xvi, 518, 557, 578, 579, 730, 731

      McCloy, John, 375

      McConaughy, Walter, 652

      MacDonald, Ramsay, 239

      McHugh, James M., xvi, 150, 189, 196, 304, 313, 318, 319–20, 330, 331, 337, 340, 404, 536, 548, 621

      McNamara, Robert, 631

      McNaughton, Frank, 417

      Macon Telegraph, 22

      McTyeire, Holland N., xvi, 9–10

      McTyeire School, 18–19, 113

      Magruder, John, xvi, 366, 372

      Malley, Garnet, 290

      Manchester Guardian, 149, 420

      Manchu (Ch’ing) Dynasty, 31–32, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 60, 84, 87, 88, 89, 104, 129, 192, 201, 213, 227, 321, 482

      Manchukuo, 227, 241, 312, 359

      Manchuria, China, 31, 42, 43, 59, 76–77, 124, 192, 222, 223, 515, 530, 531, 557

      Chiang’s occupation of, 533–35, 548, 549, 554, 558

      Communist capture of, 562, 568

      Japanese conquest of, 222–27, 247, 331, 510, 517

      Soviet desire for and control of, 515, 523, 525–26, 529–30, 533, 541, 557

      Mandalay, Burma, 389, 393

      mandarins, 28, 73, 84, 103, 203

      Mandate of Heaven, 554

      Mao Chiang Ching, 637

      Mao Fu-Mei, xvi, 88–89, 91, 94, 95n, 175, 245, 349

      Mao Tse-tung, 83, 126, 128, 137, 140n, 197, 220, 235, 263, 351, 353, 496, 509, 511, 531, 553, 559n, 570, 656, 662, 663

      Chiang’s death and, 656

      Chiang’s talks with, 531–33

      and Hurley, 512–15

      in Long March, 237, 238, 239, 242–43, 251, 350

      Nixon’s meeting with, 642

      peace terms of, 571, 573, 574

      relations with Soviet Union, 599, 640

      Republic of China proclaimed by, 581–82

      Marco Polo Bridge, 273, 277, 285

      Maring (Hendricus Sneevliet), xvi, 84, 122

      Marshall, George C., xvi, 371–72, 374, 389, 400, 404, 448, 453, 457–58, 461, 470, 472, 473–74, 493, 494, 497, 519, 520–21, 529, 532, 538, 553, 566, 567, 578, 581n, 601–2

      on peace mission to China, 541–44, 547–49, 550–51, 554, 562, 589

      Marshall, Katherine, 541, 542, 544–45, 548, 565–66

      Marx, Karl, 123

      Marxism, 83

      Maugham, Somerset, 109

      Maupassant, Guy de, 113

      Maxwell, Elsa, 424

      May Fourth Incident, 80–81

      Mays, Herbert, 616

      Meet the Press, 609, 620

      Meiji emperors, 221

      Mencius, 30, 394

      merchants, 30, 33, 34, 81, 103, 128–30, 142, 159, 160, 227

      Merrill’s Marauders, 493

      Metropolitan Museum of Art, 673–74

      Mikado, 200

      Miles, Milton, 458

      Military and Political Institute, 247

      Military Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, 313

      Military Mission to China, U.S., 372, 376, 513

      Military Voice, 92

      Miller, Merle, 564

      Mills, Emma DeLong, xvi, 25, 66, 67–68, 69, 70–71, 81–83, 100–101, 102–3, 108–9, 110–11, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117–19, 184, 297–98, 300, 301, 302, 303, 308, 354–56, 357–58, 360, 414, 440, 506, 507, 537, 576–77, 603, 604, 605, 606, 617, 619, 620–21, 629–30, 646, 647, 656, 659, 662

      awarded Medal for Distinguished Service, 348

      in China, 119–20, 121, 130–31

      death of, 667

      Mindszenty, Jószef Cardinal, 630

      Ming Dynasty, 12, 55, 131, 205, 222n, 587

      Ming Tombs, 55

      Mirand
    a decision, 631

      missionaries, 6–10, 12–13, 15, 21, 38, 61, 214, 215, 460, 577

      Missionary Review of the World, 309

      Molotov, Vyacheslav, 542

      Mongolia, 59, 61, 124, 222, 525

      Monnet, Jean, 336

      Monopoly Bureau, 589

      Monroe Doctrine, 80

      Moore, Elizabeth Luce, 15n, 331, 629

      Moore, Roger, 6

      Moore Methodist Church, 18

      Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., xvi, 339, 342, 353, 362, 426, 477, 478, 479, 506, 524, 555, 627n, 708–9

      Morgenthau, Robert, 627n

      Mountbatten, Louis, xvi, 457–58, 461, 470, 471, 474, 492–93, 494, 519

      Mow, P. T., xvi, 285, 611, 612, 613

      Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 324, 566

      Mukden, China, 212, 223, 530, 548, 554, 562, 600

      Mundt, Karl, 577

      Munitions Assignment Board, 457

      Munitions Control Board, 377

      Mussolini, Benito, 207, 239, 284, 341, 579

      Mutual Security Treaty (1954), 643

      Nagasaki, Japan, 527

      Nanking, China, 54, 55, 59, 81, 150–51, 152, 159, 163, 165, 187, 189, 196, 202, 205–6, 222n, 225, 282, 286, 292–93, 530, 574

      Japanese atrocities in, 190, 293–96

      Nanking, Treaty of (1842), 34, 150

      Napier, Lord, 33

      Nation, 113, 321–22

      National Assembly, 54, 58, 542–43, 549–50, 558

      National Assembly (Taiwan), 609, 610, 613, 641, 667

      Nationalists, 345, 349, 350–52, 357, 360, 383–84, 478, 511, 549, 677

      corruption in, 384

      in defection to Communist Party, 562, 573

      in move to Taiwan, 582

      U.S. bank reserves of, 579–80

      National Military Council, 201

      National Opium Suppression Bureau, 343

      National Resources Commission, 578

      National Review, 103

      National Revolutionary Army, 137, 141, 142, 143, 148, 149–50, 152, 165, 183, 187, 188, 189, 192, 194, 251, 272

      restructuring of, 200

      National Security Act, 665

      National Security Law, 667

      National Taiwan University, 625

      National Women’s League, 674

      Nazi Party, 219, 296, 340–41, 357, 371, 437

      Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, 366

      NBC, 592

      Nehru, Jawaharlal, xvi, 377, 378, 662

      Nepal, 31n

      New Fourth Army Incident, 351

      New Life Movement, 231–35, 242, 250, 316, 322, 327

      New Republic, 114, 422–23

      New Shan-chow, xvi, 5–6, 11–12, 19

      Newsweek, 494, 626, 654

      New York American, 331n

      New York Herald, 223

      New York Herald Tribune, 307, 422, 500, 533

      New York Journal-American, 600

      New York News, 432

      New York Times, 47, 122, 143, 145, 159–60, 182, 203, 216, 228, 302, 307, 319, 334, 378, 409, 432, 449, 460, 511, 594, 595, 600, 609, 610, 611, 627, 629, 631, 636, 645, 647, 654, 661, 670, 672–73, 678, 679

      New York Times Magazine, 305, 395, 460, 536–37

      New Youth, 83

      Nguyen Van Thieu, 633

      Nihilism, 69n

      Nine-Power Treaty, 279n, 282

      Nixon, Richard, 577, 638–43, 646, 655n

      NKVD, 248, 305

      North-China Daily News, 130, 346, 560

      North-China Herald, 36, 135, 136, 144, 151, 155, 163, 165, 182, 188, 211, 216, 222n, 333, 349

      Northern Expedition, 121, 129, 130, 137, 138, 140–43, 144–45, 160, 165, 171, 187–88, 190–91, 195, 198, 203, 205, 314, 373

      North Korea, 547, 600, 601

      North Vietnam, 641

      Oakes, Vanya, 329

      Oberlin College (China), 62

      Oberlin College (U.S.), 61

      Office of Policy Coordination, U.S. (OPC), 602, 603

      Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 104, 348, 458–59, 495, 602

      Office of War Information, 433, 437, 457

      Officer’s Moral Endeavor Association, 189–90

      One World (Willkie), 407, 460

      On War and Peace (Wedemeyer), 508

      Open-Door Policy, 43

      opium, 32–34, 42, 105–7, 125, 151, 155, 199, 227, 228n, 234, 239, 240, 242, 316, 335, 338, 445

      Chiang’s policies on, 343–47, 622–23

      Chinese use of in Second Sino-Japanese War, 302, 307

      Opium Suppression Bureau, 107, 346, 459

      Opium Wars, 34, 35, 36, 39, 43, 150, 202, 205, 221

      Orr, John C., 8–9

      Oursler, Fulton, xvii, 305, 615

      Oursler, Grace, xvii, 615–16

      Outer Mongolia, 31n

      Outline of History (Wells), 113

      Paget, Debra, 580

      Pai Chung-hsi, xvii, 201, 571

      Palace Museum, 292

      Panay, USS, 308

      Pan-Green Coalition, 680n

      Paoting, China, 281

      Park, W. H., 10

      Parliament, Chinese, 59, 75, 95

      Patterson, A. L., 290–91

      Payne, Robert, 212–13, 223, 320, 611

      “Peace Preservation Corps,” 589

      Peale, Norman Vincent, 675

      Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 323, 367, 368, 370, 412, 422, 424n, 447, 477, 546, 673

      Pearson, Drew, xvii, 412, 564

      Peck, Graham, 407, 457

      Peffer, Nathaniel, 460

      Peiping Chronicle, 233

      Peking (Peiping), 31–32, 34, 42, 43, 48, 54, 55, 61, 76, 80, 81, 82, 109–10, 204, 212, 222, 228, 530, 544, 554, 558, 581n

      Peking Gazette, 71

      Peng Ming-min, 625

      People’s Central Advisory Commission, 665

      People’s Liberation Army, 553, 599

      People’s Political Council, 350

      Pepsi-Cola, 640n–41n

      Perry, Matthew, 221

      Persia, 344

      Pescadore Islands, 42, 604

      Philadelphia Enquirer, 620

      Philippines, 522, 601

      Pinchon Loh, 86

      Ping-Pong diplomacy, 640

      pirates, 5, 36

      Politburo, 198

      Port Arthur, 43, 516, 525–26

      Potsdam Conference, 526, 531, 601

      Pravda, 121n, 248

      Presidential Palace, 97

      Prohme, Rayna, xvii, 164

      Propaganda Department, Chinese, 124, 128, 137, 140n

      prostitutes, 42, 81, 91, 125, 199, 247, 280, 316

      Public Security Office, 219

      Pu-yi, 227

      Quebec, Canada, 457–58

      Quemoy and Matsu (islands), 595, 596, 618, 620, 666

      queues, 50, 51, 89

      Rabe, John, 296

      railroads, in China, 43, 44, 55, 56, 59, 240, 486, 516, 526, 527, 531, 533, 548, 554, 587

      Rajchman, Ludwig “Lulu,” 555

      Rape of Nanking, 293–96

      Rayburn, Sam, 420

      Reader’s Digest, 460, 579, 616, 625

      Reagan, Ronald, 642, 673

      Record of the Warring States, 89n

      Red Army, 236, 271–72, 350

      Red Cross, 191, 240, 304, 307–8, 452

      Red Gang, 104

      Red Guards, 236, 636–37

      Reid, Dr., 22

      Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, U.N., 589

      Reorganizationists, 212

      Reporter, 555, 556, 557, 577, 578, 579, 580

      Republican Party, U.S., 577

      Revive China Society, 49, 50

      Revolutionary Alliance, 53, 58

      “revolutionary bonds,” 50

      Revolutionary Forces, 61

      Reynold’s Weekly, 456

      Ricaud, T. Page, xvii, 6, 16

      Ridgway, Matthew, 603

      Robertson, Walter S., 532

      Rockefeller, John D., 430

      Rockefeller, Nelson, 655

      Rogers, Cyril, 333, 338

      Roosev
    elt, Eleanor, 412, 413–14, 416, 417, 418, 419, 423, 424–25, 426, 427, 443, 465, 488n, 496, 507, 679

      Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 306n, 317, 329, 357, 360, 361, 362, 364, 367, 370, 371, 374, 378, 379, 389, 400, 403, 404, 419, 423, 425, 427, 436, 461, 482, 490, 493, 496, 509, 511–12, 518, 523, 557, 564, 672

      aid to China from, 339, 340, 477–78, 479

      at Atlantic Conference, 365

      at Cairo Conference, 469–71, 473, 474–75

      at Casablanca Conference, 415

      death of, 523, 524

      May-ling’s meeting with, 417–18

      May-ling’s U.S. visit arranged by, 412, 413, 435

      Stilwell’s meeting on Burma with, 475–76

      Stilwell’s removal, 498, 500

      at TRIDENT Conference, 447, 449–50, 451

      at Yalta Conference, 515–17

      Roosevelt, James, 414

      Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore, 223

      Roosevelt, Theodore, 22n, 80, 369n

      Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 306–7, 311

      Rusk, Dean, 603, 628, 632, 634

      Russia, 32, 43, 89, 130, 283, 291, 398, 400, 414–15, 436

      Russo-Japanese War, 21, 43, 89, 130, 221, 516

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 214

      St. Louis Star-Times, 566

      Sakhalin Islands, 516

      Salisbury, Harrison, 647

      Salter, Arthur, 535

      samurais, 200

      Sandburg, Carl, 436

      San Francisco Chronicle, 437, 645, 677

      San Francisco Conference, 517–18

      Sano, Emily, 677

      SARS epidemic, 232n

      Saturday Evening Post, 113, 499, 616

      Scaroni, General, 284

      Schaller, Michael, 498

      Schools for the Children of the Heroes of the Revolution, 206–8

      Schoppa, R. Keith, 558n

      Scotland Yard, 51

      Scripps Howard, 576, 618

      Seagrave, Gordon, 391n

      Seagrave, Sterling, 649n

      Searles, Wilson, 425–26

      Seeckt, Hans von, xvii, 236–37

      Selznick, David O., 429, 431n

      Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 637

      Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, 613

      Service, John S., xvii, 456, 464, 496–97, 502, 510, 512, 513, 514, 517n, 518, 730

      Severeid, Eric, 392

      Shanghai, China, 10–11, 13, 19, 20, 34, 35–38, 47, 49, 52, 66, 67, 69, 99, 117

      banks in, 155

      Bund, 275, 570

      Chiang’s move on, 148–53

      Chiang’s political terror, 574–75

      Ching-kuo’s “economic war,” 560–61

      factories and industry, 71–72, 104, 148, 311

      foreign concessions, 36, 80, 81, 91, 104–5, 135–36, 150–52, 153, 158, 160, 161–62, 183, 225–26, 227, 276, 278, 286, 287, 294, 345

      gangs, 344–45

      Japanese attacks, 225–27, 274–75, 276–80, 281, 286–87, 289, 292, 304, 339

      liberation from Japan, 530–31

      riots, 188

      smuggling, 358–59

      strike, 149

     


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