There are books for sale. I recommend you pick one up and perhaps get a signature on it. With that, i will turn over the introduction of our speaker today. Thank you. Good to be here. Welcome to the seminar. It is wonderful to have them back. He is an alumnus. Spent part of the work on his book here. We are delighted to have them come back with the final product. Let me just say by way of introduction, he is entering director of the East Asia Program at syracuse university, and the former Vice President of the foundation. In that capacity he has done a lot of good work and research and is also a trustee, us china relations. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College concert with the u. S. Army in vietnam, holds ma and phd degrees from stanford. His book is already been reviewed, and we are very much looking forward to his presentation today. Thank you very much. It is a special privilege to be here. This is where the project started. I wanti want to take this opportunity to not
What kind of sources used. You allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. What kind of sources did you use . Second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography . Putting this book together was a real effective story. You know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. As i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of William Dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. The 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, Maxwell Air Force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. The Army Air Force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. He had met doolittle. He had led a colorful life, so theres some
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At the end of the war, towards the end of the war as the japanese were withdrawing their forces towards the north, birch moved from south ofchina, the area here, up to this province which really was behind japanese lines. And many in this area the nationalist forces were primarily in the southwest where theyd been, they had to retreat, withdraw after fighting so long and hard with the japanese. The communists were forced up to the area after the long march, but their power increased through the course of world war ii. So when birch yets up there gets up there, he is in contact with communist forces from time to time, and the policy of the United States government is a very pragmatic policy, and that is to cooperate with the communist forces if necessary when theres a good reason to do so. He didnt have any particular sympathy for the communists or their cause, nor did he have any sympathy for the nationalists. His loyalties really were with the chinese people. There was great relief on
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