Chiang Kaishek's Last Ambassador to Moscow The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang [Hardcover]

This fascinating study examines wartime Chinese-Soviet relations from a Moscow-based, Chinese perspective at the ambassadorial level. The book includes descriptions of everyday life in Moscow, of embassy business, of contemporary events and diplomacy, of intelligence operations, of meetings with Stalin, and of communications to and from Chongqing.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Characters Introduction PART I: BEFORE MOSCOW A Young Revolutionary A New Appointment PART II: AT THE CHINESE EMBASSY Purpose and Management Entertaining and Intelligence Diplomacy and Protocol PART III: THE BIG FOUR Allies at War, Second Front The Conference PART IV: XINJIANG Returning to the Fold Governor Sheng PART V: ALLIANCES Yalta and the Far Eastern Agreement The Allies and Soviet Support Intelligence, the Allies and the Chinese Communists The 1945 Sino-Soviet Treaty PART VI: FU'S MISSION TO MOSCOW Looking Back Bibliography IndexYEE-WAH FOO Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is Fu Bingchang's grand-daughter, and this is her first book.