To: Eric in the Ozarks
Impressive.
Did he learn Chinese?
I met some of the old China hands when I lived there. They were a special breed. Great folks. And well respected by the common Chinese people as well as by the scholars.
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03/09/2006 5:42:06 PM PST by
Quix
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To: Quix
I think he had a working knowledge of Mandarin and he spoke Japanese pretty well.
You might find this interesting;
He joined a Masonic Lodge in Shanghai in the 1930s but lost track of the group of men during the war. When he took the DAC job and arrived in Japan, he found several of his old lodge brothers and the lodge itself in Tokyo. They had left China in 1949 following the Communist takeover that banned all things western. This is proably why we stayed in Japan until 1961--a lot of these guys just didn't want to go home.
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