South of Tokyo

by John C. Caldwell

Chicago 1957 1st Regnery. Communism in China. Octavo, 160pp., hardcover. Fine in Good DJ.

160 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1957

About the author

John Cope Caldwell was a specialist in Eastern Studies. He was born in Fujian Province, China, when his parents were visiting as Methodist missionaries. He was the educational director of the University of Tennessee Conservation Department from 1935-1943, the director of the Southeast China Branch of the Office of War Information in 1943, and the chief of the Far East Division of Information and Cultural Activities for the United States Department of State from 1944-1950. He went on to write for journals and newspapers and published several books about East Asia.

Reviews

[John Geddes]

"Of all the experts who write on the Far East, none is better equipped than John C. Caldwell. He was born in China, the son of an American missionary who, for fifty years, had preached and doctored in Haitang Island. He speaks several Chinese dialects and Korean, has been personally acquainted with most protagonists in the great Asian drama, and has held important jobs for the United States Government in China and Korea (where he helped to establish the South Korean Government). He also knows Japan and the Philippines intimately. The recommended two books [the other being Still the Rice Grows Green https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...] give a crucial part of the record of stupidity, ignorance, poor judgment and outright treason — all the American "mistakes” — that were instrumental in throwing one-fourth of all mankind to the Communist wolves. In South of Tokyo, Caldwell shows how another 170 million people in Southeast Asia are, before our eyes, being swallowed by the Communist tide — and their fate arouses little more than yawning in the United States. But the forthcoming fall of Southeast Asia will deliver India and the few other remaining “neutralist” nations of Asia, and then Western Europe as well, into the Red orbit."

American Opinion, Volume 2, No. 1 January 1959, p.10-1
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