An American diplomat in China

By Paul S Reinsch and Paul S. Reinsch

Step inside the legation gates of a new China, seen through American eyes. Paul S. Reinsch records what it meant to represent the United States as the old order fell and the republic struggled to define itself. History feels very close here. Part diplomatic memoir, part foreign service autobiography, this political history narrative follows the daily pressures of negotiation, protocol, and persuasion, while keeping one eye on the bigger question of how nations learn to speak to each other. It is also a study in cross-cultural reading: what is said, what is implied, and what is misunderstood. Reinsch writes with the alertness of a man in the room: the shifting alliances of early Chinese republic politics, the competing visions of reform and sovereignty, and the practical work of American diplomacy in China. For readers of US foreign service memoirs and anyone tracing the long arc of US China relations, it offers a grounded, human account of policy made under uncertainty. Valuable today as a China studies primary source from the China republic era, An American Diplomat in China helps modern readers hear the period without the noise of hindsight. It stands as a public domain nonfiction classic: an eyewitness record of Beijing 1910s political life and a rare window onto the mechanics of statecraft at a global crossroads. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, presented here in a complete unabridged text for casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9389265517
• ISBN13: 9789389265514
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"