CHINA HAND: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 13567912B54712
English Summary/英文概要： At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country-which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India’s Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America’s policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在上世紀瘋狂的50年代，日益盛行的麥卡錫主義，小約翰•佩頓•大衛斯在一天早上被傳召到國務院後，被解聘了。這是他的罪過嗎？這位曾在二戰期間，提醒當時的美國政府中國共產黨，將會在1949年接管這個亞洲大國的職業外交家。大衛斯和成千上萬的其他人一樣，成為了這場席捲全國，剝奪了美國的智慧，和對整整一代東亞國家的外交官和學者起制導作用的政治漩渦受害者。作為一位美國傳教士的兒子，大衛斯出生在中國二十世紀之交。他在美國接受的教育，他在1930年代加入了新組建的駐外事務處的行列，並回到了中國，在那裡他一直呆到二次世界大戰將近結束。在那段時間，他成為第一個和被當時認為是年青革命者的毛澤東會晤和交談的美國人。他記錄了當時執政者的揮霍無度和中國國民黨領導人蔣介石的政治弱點。作為“醋喬”約瑟夫•史迪威將軍，在東亞和南亞，盟軍部隊戰時指揮官的政治助手，他在這一地區四處遊歷，會見了當時殖民時期印度的尼赫魯和甘地，以衡量他們對英國統治的敵意是否將會轉化為對日本的支持。大衛斯在戰爭結束時，和美對蘇政策的構架師，喬治•肯南一同在莫斯科共事。肯南成為大衛斯終身的朋友和同事。然而，他們似乎都對戰後快速蔓延的反共產主義免疫。中國通是一個男人作為觀察員和演員，如何用詼諧而又明智的洞察力地去記錄他所生活的時代背景的一則故事。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：在 5 0年代初美國的“麥卡錫時期” ,曾將“失去中國”歸罪於老“中國通”———二戰時期在中國工作和國務院內負責對華事務的外交官們。其中得咎最深者乃三位“約翰”。他們是範宣德 (John Carter Vincent)、謝偉思 (John Stewart Service)和大衛斯 (John Paton Davies,Jr)。大衛斯已於1999年12月23日病逝於北卡羅來納州的埃希維爾市 (Asheville, N. C)。終年91歲。美國各主要媒體紛紛以顯著版面發表訃告和評論。《紐約時報》的紀念文章認為 ,在這些被指責為“失去中國”的外交官中 ,大衛斯的經歷最具震撼力，因為他曾被譽為二戰中的英雄，還被上司看好，將來命定會擔任國務院的高層職務。
二戰時期，大衛斯任美國駐華外交官。他首先倡議美國派軍事觀察組常駐延安，後又與謝偉思一同提議直接向中共提供援助。他認為，這不僅將有助於加強對日作戰，還將有利於防止中共在戰後和蘇聯結盟。在麥卡錫時期，他為此被當成“親共”而遭清洗。他當時向美國政府提出的建議無疑是富有前瞻性和符合美國長遠利益的。但他在迭受挫折後，卻對自己的正確判斷產生了懷疑。此後，一直為自己的政治立場進行表白，直到臨終都未能走出消沉委屈的陰影。
About the Author/作者介绍： 小約翰•佩頓•大衛斯，.(1908年-1999年) 是1931年至1954年美國國務院的一位外交官。他也是《外交和其它事務》和《龍翼：美、英、日和俄所見到的別樣中國》的作者。陶德S珀德姆是《名利場》雜誌的編輯。康明思是芝加哥大學古斯塔夫 F.和 安 M.斯威夫特著名的歷史系教授。他還是，最近《稱霸海洋：太平洋崛起和美國實力》一書的作者。John Paton Davies, Jr. (1908-99) was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1931 to 1954. He was also the author of Foreign and Other Affairs and Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another. Todd S. Purdum is national editor of Vanity Fair. Bruce Cumings is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, most recently Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power.
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