biography
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| lived:
| (1900–89)
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| biography:
| Sinologist and defender of civil liberties, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He studied at Harvard before being sent to China to do research. He published narratives of his journeys, notably Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940). He was made political adviser to Jiang Jieshi by Franklin D Roosevelt (1941–2), and became director of Pacific operations in the office of war information. His Ordeal by Slander (1950) refers to his being wrongly named as a top Russian agent by Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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