Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922–1933

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Foreword ix Preface xi Part I. The U.S. Navy and Contending Warlords 1 1. The Navy in the Far East 3 2. The Canton Customs Crisis 23 3. The Main Gate: Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta 30 4. The Navy and the May 30th Incident of 1925 and After 39 5. Shameen and South China 49 6. The Upper Yangtze 65 Part II. The U.S. Navy and the Rise of the Nationalists 99 7. Explosions on the Yangtze, 1926 101 8. 1927: A Year of Decision 113 9. The Nanking Incident of 1927 131 10. After Nanking 140 11. Calls to the North 154 12. An Admiral Diplomat in Command 166 13. The Navy and a Still Disunited China 186 14. The Navy and “China United” 199 Part III. The U.S. Navy and the Confrontation between China and Japan 225 15. Crumbling Foreign Collaboration 227 16. The Shanghai Incident 245 17. The Shanghai Incident: The Gathering Storm 265 18. The Navy behind “Big Stick” Diplomacy in 1932 278 19. The Shanghai Incident: After Hostilities 293 20. Sequels to the Shanghai Incident 312 21. Communist Unrest and Japanese Aggression 324 Afterword 343 Epilogue by James C. Bradford 347 Appendix: U.S. Naval Commanders in China, 1922–1930 351 Notes 353 Bibliography 387 Index 395 ...