Overview

Not a contemporary diary as such, but a write-up of notes made towards the end of White's career spanning thirty-eight years. Importantly, it includes reflective passages on the momentous developments of the later 1930s, as Japan moved onto a war-footing in China - and as Consul-General in the Chinese treaty port of Tianjin under Japanese occupation, White was in the middle of the growing tensions between Britain and Japan. His post-war recollections are also valuable. Like others who had lived and worked in Japan, he sought to come to terms with what had happened to the country in which he had spent so much of his adult life. Along the way he provides fascinating vignettes of his colleagues, some well known, others less so, while his service in Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang) and Tianjin provides fresh material on the Japanese colonial empire.

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Author:   Hugo Read
Publisher:   Global Books
Imprint:   Renaissance Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781898823643

ISBN 10:   1898823642
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Figures and Plate section face page 108 Acknowledgements Foreword by Jim Hoare Introduction by Hugo Read List of Figures and Plates Preface to ‘All Ambition Spent’ Chapter 1 The Japanese View Chapter 2 Student Interpreter in Tokyo, 1903–1905 Chapter 3 Tokyo in 1904 and 1905 Chapter 4 Assistant at Yokohama, 1905–1908 Chapter 5 Stray Notes on Language Chapter 6 Assistant in Corea, 1908–1910 Chapter 7 Corea in 1909 and 1910 Chapter 8 Vice-Consul at Yokohama, 1911–1913 Chapter 9 Vice-Consul at Osaka, 1913–1919 Chapter 10 Consul at Nagasaki, 1920–1925 Chapter 11 Consul at Dairen, 1925–1927 Chapter 12 Consul-General at Seoul, 1928–1931 Chapter 13 Consul-General at Osaka, 1931–1937 Chapter 14 Consul-General at Mukden, 1938–1939 Chapter 15 Consul-General at Tientsin, 1939–1941 Chapter 16 Anglo-Japanese Relations Index

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Hugo Read is the great-grandson of Oswald White who spent 38 years in the Japan Consular Service (1903-1941). White's 'Japan memoir' was entitled All Ambition Spent, mostly written pre-1939 but completed towards the end of the war. Hugo Read is also the author of a portrait of Oswald White published in Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X. He works in the telecoms industry, and is a wine consultant and member of the Association of Wine Educators. He writes on food, drink, travel.

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