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ADST-DACOR DIPLOMATS AND DIPLOMACY SERIES
Series Editor: MARGERY BOICHEL THOMPSON
Since 1776, extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad under all sorts of circumstances. What they did and how and why they did it remain little known to their compatriots. In 1995 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, Inc. (DACOR) created the Diplomats and Diplomacy book series to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the role of American diplomats in world history. The series seeks to demystify diplomacy through the stories of those who have conducted U.S. foreign relations, as they lived, influenced, and reported them. NICHOLAS PLATT’s China Boys, 38th in the series, fulfills these aims brilliantly.
OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES
HERMAN J. COHEN, Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent
CHARLES T. CROSS, Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia
WILSON DIZARD JR, Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the United States Information Agency
BRANDON GROVE, Behind Embassy Walls: The Life and Times of an American Diplomat
PARKER T. HART, Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership
JOHN H. HOLDRIDGE, Crossing the Divide: An Insider’s Account of Normalization of U.S.-China Relations
CAMERON R. HUME, Mission to Algiers: Diplomacy by Engagement
DENNIS KUX, The United States and Pakistan, 1947–2000: Disenchanted Allies
JANE C. LOEFFLER, The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies
WILLIAM B. MILAM, Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in Muslim South Asia
ROBERT H. MILLER, Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education
DAVID D. NEWSOM, Witness to a Changing World
RONALD E. NEUMANN, The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan
HOWARD B. SCHAFFER, The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir
ULRICH STRAUS, The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II
JAMES STEPHENSON, Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction
NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER, China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945–1996
China Boys
How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew
A Personal Memoir
NICHOLAS PLATT
An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book
Washington, DC
Copyright 2009 Nicholas Platt,
All rights reserved.
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0358-8
The views expressed in this manuscript are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, official policy, or positions of the Government of the United States, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, or Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, Inc.
New Academia Publishing/VELLUM Books, 2010
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Control Number: 20109221730
ISBN 978-0-9844062-2-7 paperback (alk. paper)
To my marvelous, adventurous wife, Sheila, who rode with me the whole way
Sheila Maynard Platt, Hong Kong, 1965
From now on, you China Boys are going to have a lot more to do.
––Richard M. Nixon, Shanghai, February 28, 1972
