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The China History Podcast

Ep. 118 | John Service (Part 4)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode runs way into overtime but at least we’re getting through to the end of 1944. The Dixie Mission is in full swing by the end of that year. John Service has established himself in Washington circles as one of the most informed and dynamic China hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0

Hey everyone, me again, Lhasa Montgomery, part four in our little overview series covering the Life of John S service. Through the Life of John's Service, we're also looking at some of the history of U.S. China relations

1:09.8

during the time after the capital of Nationalist China, the Republic of China, had been moved

1:15.4

from Nanjing to Chong-Ching.

1:18.5

As I've mentioned before, I'm using Lynn Joyner's Honorable Survivor, Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the persecution of

1:25.1

John S. Service.

1:27.2

We have traced his life up to this point from his beginnings growing up in Sichuan province attending school in Shanghai in the 1920s and then moving back to the US.

1:39.0

Then through his lifelong friend John Patton Davies, he joins the Foreign Service and he arrives in

1:45.4

China pretty much just in time for World War II and it's here where we have been lingering

1:50.6

of recent. We are focusing of course here at the Royal China History

1:56.5

podcast on the life of John's service. During this period in wartime China

2:01.7

1941 and 1945, there are major roles and walk-on parts played

2:07.1

by people whose names populate a thousand history books about the time. We left off last time recovering from the

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