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Nicholas MD Platt. CHINA BOYS: How U.S. Relations With the PRC Began and Grew. A Personal Memoir
Prologue
Notes on Sources
1. Choosing Diplomacy. Early Asians
School Influences
Maiden Aunts of Influence
Choices at Harvard
Convincing the Family
Convincing the U.S. Government
2. Choosing China. A Rude Shock
A New Idea
The First Call
Management and Diplomatic Training
3. Learning the Chinese. Dr. Ma’s First Lesson
Infant Formulas
Singing for Kennedy
Taiwan at Last
Back to School
Studying the Chinese
Breakthrough to Fluency
Meeting Generalissimo and Madame Chiang
4. Watching China. Newspapers Wrapped around Fish
The Importance of Being Literate
The Politics of Night Soil
A Collegial Rumor Mill
Motley Mighty Visitors
Tales from Prisoners of War
”These Are The Good Old Days”
5. The Cultural Revolution. Earthquake Warning
The Origins of Upheaval
A Different Job
The Violence Grows
Turmoil in Hong Kong
A Difference of Opinion
Order Restored
Heading Home
6. Signs and Signals. Signs of Change
Sino-Soviet Hostility Changes the Game
The Mating Dance Begins
China and UN Representation
Comparing Notes Abroad
7. Office Manager for the Secretary of State. Birth of a Bureaucrat
Kissinger’s Secret Trip
8. Preparing for China. Getting Picked
The Care and Feeding of a Briefing Book
Rogers Reacts
The White House Reacts
Final Tuning
En Route to China: Hawaii
A Reversal of Roles
Labor Is Divided
Guam
9. China at Last: Nixon in Beijing. A Quiet Arrival
Not Meeting Mao
Dinner with the Elders
Phoning Washington from the Great Hall of the People
Madame Mao Entertains
Media Makes the Message
Chatting with Zhou Enlai
10. Trouble in the U.S. Delegation. Haggling in Hangzhou
Premier Zhou Calls on Rogers
End Game—The Shanghai Communiqué
Meeting Richard Nixon
Dealing with the Disgruntled
11. Birth of the Bruce Mission
Explaining the Paris Peace Accords
The NSC and State—Finally Working Together
Breakthrough for Liaison Offices
Meeting David Bruce
The Chinese Come to Town
The Longest Day
Gritty Realities
12. The Liaison Office Starts Work. Beijing by Bike
The Policy Context
An Odd Table of Organization
Making the Rounds
Premier Zhou Welcomes Bruce—Kissinger Is Cross
Huang Zhen Leaves for America
Building the Red Ass Bar
13. Shepherd of Sports
The Politics of Swimming
How to Make Olympic Champions
The Interpreter’s Nightmare
Exhibitions and Tours
Mao Country
Tension in Shanghai
The Return Banquet
Basketball, High Diplomacy, and National Politics
14. Family Liaison. Apart Too Long
“Fat Babies” in China
Mission Headaches
Living in the Cocoon
Where to Go to School
Social Life
15. Collecting China
Setting Off
We Become a Delegation
People as Animals
Salt in the Popsicles
Acupuncture Kills Pain
Horror at the University
Collecting Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai
Settled at Last
16. Waiting, Watching, and Welcoming
A Meeting Long Delayed
Calm on the Surface
A Communist Analysis
The Secret Anticlimax
Final Assessments
Getting to Know You
17. The Politics of Music. Dangerous Liaisons
Beethoven’s Peasant Revolution
Bravo in Beijing
Madame Mao’s Blessing
Dramatis Personae
Politics Again
18. Kissinger Comes. Sour Reality
Low Society
Kissinger’s Visit
In a Holding Pattern
Irritating the Soviets
A Thousand Cups among Friends
19. Death and Departure. A Fatal Accident
The Investigation Turns Hostile
Harsh Judgment
Sentenced to Leave China
Backing from Bruce
David Bruce’s Prophecy
The End of the Beginning
Charting a New Course
20. Renewal in Japan. Language Therapy
Comfort at the Survival Level
A Perfect Plug-In
The Family Takes to Tokyo
Work in a Big City Embassy
President Ford Pays a Visit
21. Becoming an Asia Hand. The Fall of Saigon
Changes in China
The MiG-25 Crisis
The Guard Changes—Mondale Visits Japan
New Work in Washington
The White House Calls
Korea on Our Mind
Bad Chemistry
22. The Pentagon Meets the PLA. Normalization at Last
Back to China with the Secretary of Defense
Tightrope Instructions
Talks in Beijing
Strategic and International Issues
Bilateral Military Relations
Technology Transfer
Assessments, Atmospherics, and Personalities
Harold Brown
Deng Xiaoping
Hua Guofeng
23. America Greets the PLA
Life in the Five-Sided Building
General Liu Comes to Washington
A Chinese Defense Minister’s First Visit to Washington
A Cozy Chat
Full Honors
Substantive Issues
A Grand Tour
New Thinking from a Veteran of the Long March
24. The Perry Mission. Getting Practical
Perry’s Political Commissar
Changing Times
What We Learned
What the Chinese Learned
Manufacturing
Modifications
Electronics
The F-8 Again
Following Up
A New Roadmap
Then and Now
25. Change and Move On: Fast Forward. Election Shock
China Angst
Moving On
Fast Forward
China Expands and Explodes
26. The “Best Embassy on Park Avenue” A Phone Rings in the Himalayas
The “Best Embassy on Park Avenue”
Riding the Asian Wave
Deciding to Reengage with China
27. China Boy Redux. Back to Beginnings
The Friendly Fossil
Hong Kong Handover
A Two-Way Bridge
A New Ball Game
Life of the Party
28. Safe in a Clinch. The Triumph of “Nuts and Bolts”
The Generations to Come
China in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Growth
China and the United States in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
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I spoke with Richard Nixon for the first and last time on February 28, 1972, the night the Shanghai Communiqué was signed.
I arrived early for the meeting at the official guesthouse. The president was sitting in a flowered silk dressing gown over an open-collar shirt and trousers, a long, fat cigar in one hand and a tall scotch and soda in the other. He looked drained but satisfied with what he had accomplished. What an extraordinary-looking man he was up close! Huge head, small body, duck feet, puffy cheeks, “about three walnuts apiece,” my notes indicated, and pendant jowls hanging down, the entire combination exuding authority.
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Having decided early what I wanted to do, I began unconsciously searching for someone to do it with. Deep down, the idea of launching into a complicated international life without a mate terrified me. Sheila Maynard was a year behind me at Radcliffe. We had both been born in 1936, midway between the Great Depression and World War II, in the same Upper East Side New York hospital. We did not know each other then, but our parents did. They were members of a socially cohesive group of professionals––lawyers, architects, and investment bankers––thus assuring that, one day, we would meet. We found each other in February of my junior year at a ghastly, smoke-filled, post-exam party in a crowded dormitory room, drinking gin out of Styrofoam cups. We sat down and started talking. Three hours later we were astonished to find that we had not run out of things to say. The conversation has lasted more than fifty years. I gave up rowing my senior year in order to court her. In the winter of 1957, my senior year, I startled Sheila and myself by proposing, out of the blue, that she come with me on my chosen adventure and be the mother of my children. Equally startling, she agreed. We married just after graduation.
Diplomacy was an unorthodox choice, particularly in a family whose professional traditions were architecture and law. My grandfather, Charles A. Platt, had been a leading architect. He designed the Freer Gallery, Deerfield Academy, and Phillips Andover as well as a host of grand residences for the tycoons of his time. My father, Geoffrey, had a distinguished career of his own, which culminated as New York City’s first Landmarks Commissioner. Happily, my father had no preconceived notions of what I should become. On the contrary, when I asked him early in my teens whether I should become an architect, he responded in the kindest manner, “If you have to ask, you should not be one.” He advised me to go with my own passion.
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