{"id":56,"date":"2009-06-29T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-12-06T20:08:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T04:08:42","slug":"they-deserve-our-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/20090629\/they-deserve-our-attention.html","title":{"rendered":"[Reading] They deserve our attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday June 27th. at the Glamour Bar<\/a> in Shanghai, I attended a book talk event.\u00c2\u00a0 U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 journalist and author Ms. Lynne Joiner previewed her upcoming new book “Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service<\/em> ” (Link<\/a> on Amazon.com).<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a great talk.\u00c2\u00a0 Before the talk, I have no idea of who is John S. Service<\/a> (Jack Service).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now I learned this American diplomat has played an important role regarding U.S. and China relations prior to and during the World War II, and then was McCarthy<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first victim.<\/p>\n

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I was a pure native Chinese, born and grew up in China.\u00c2\u00a0 From my experience, I believe Jack Service is relatively very unknown <\/strong>by Chinese people.\u00c2\u00a0 Some more popular known American diplomats in China during WWII are Patrick Jay Hurley<\/a> (known as \u00e8\u00b5\u00ab\u00e5\u00b0\u201d\u00e5\u02c6\u00a9 in China) and John Leighton Stuart<\/a> (known as \u00e5\u008f\u00b8\u00e5\u00be\u2019\u00e9\u203a\u00b7\u00e7\u2122\u00bb in China), the two U.S. ambassadors to the Republic of China from 1944 to 1949, especially Mr. Stuart because Mao Zedong wrote an article named “\u00e5\u02c6\u00ab\u00e4\u00ba\u2020\u00ef\u00bc\u0152\u00e5\u008f\u00b8\u00e5\u00be\u2019\u00e9\u203a\u00b7\u00e7\u2122\u00bb<\/a>” (Farewell, Mr. Stuart), and the article was in the required Chinese courses of Chinese high school, so you can expect every Chinese high school student has learned the article, and then knew the name of Mr. Stuart.<\/p>\n

This reminded me that there are a lot of important events and people which and who deserve attention and respect, but actually not.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, Nanking Massacre<\/a>, such atrocities so imporant in the history, but relatively unknown in western world.\u00c2\u00a0 According to New York Times in 2004<\/a>, Iris Chang<\/a>‘s book, The Rape of Nanking:The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II<\/a><\/em> (1997), was the first <\/strong>English-language full-length nonfiction account of the atrocity itself.<\/p>\n

I am not a historian, and have no intention to harbor resentment, but I always believe that we should remember those important people and events in the human being history.\u00c2\u00a0 They deserve our attention.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for details of the new book, here is a good interview article:<\/p>\n

At the Glamour Bar: Lynne Joiner<\/a>, written by JFK Miller, posted on Wednesday, 24 June 2009.<\/p>\n

Thank Ms. Joiner for the book.<\/p>\n

Again: \u00c2\u00a0Try to disclaimer <\/strong>because political history are almost always sensitive <\/strong>topic:
\nI am not a historian, and have no intention to harbor resentment<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0I personally have not read this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday June 27th. at the Glamour Bar in Shanghai, I attended a book talk event.\u00c2\u00a0 U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 journalist and author Ms. Lynne Joiner previewed her upcoming new book “Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service ” (Link on Amazon.com). It turned out to be a great talk.\u00c2\u00a0 Before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-history"],"views":8377,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}