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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother Sara spent two years of her father's Rose Hill mansion in Hong Kong, and she supported Franklin financially throughout his life. His 5th cousin Theodore became president in 1901 when President McKinley was assassinated. T.R. was | Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother Sara spent two years of her father's Rose Hill mansion in Hong Kong, and she supported Franklin financially throughout his life. His 5th cousin Theodore became president in 1901 when President !McKinley was assassinated. T.R. was |
The China Mirage
The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
James Bradley 2015, Garden Home 327.510 BRA
Author of Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers
Bradley isn't fond of either President Roosevelt, and makes a case that their gullibility to Japanese and Chinese scherers led to the 1940s Pacific War, the Vietnam war, and a 50 year delay of normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China. I have friends in PRC, and also ROC (Republic of China), so what follows is Bradley's view, not mine.
Yankee traders from New England got fabulously rich smuggling opium into China, founding dynasties (like the Warren Delano's) in New England. First Opium war 1839-1842, Britain against China. Treaty of Nanking forced the establishments of dozens of treaty ports where foreigners could trade opium for silver. Americans Delano, Russell, Cushing, Perkins, Forbes, Low, and Green built New England's monuments and factories with opium profits.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother Sara spent two years of her father's Rose Hill mansion in Hong Kong, and she supported Franklin financially throughout his life. His 5th cousin Theodore became president in 1901 when President McKinley was assassinated. T.R. was MoreLater
Churches in the United States sent many missionaries and lots of money to China, hoping to westernize the heathens. The missionaries mostly failed, but they didn't tell the churches. One of their few "successes" was Charlie Soong, an immigrant laborer in the US who skirted the 1882 Alien Exclusion Act by moving to North Carolina, becoming a Southern Methodist, and studying theology at Trinity College (renamed Duke University in 1924), then Vanderbilt in Tennessee, graduating and returning to China in 1886, where he became wealthy printing bibles. In 1894, Soong met Sun Yat-sen, who he lauded on fund-raising missions to the US as the "Chinese George Washington". Soong's 23 year old daughter Chingling married Sun in 1915. Soong died in 1918, daughter Ailing took charge of the family fortune, and daughter Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek in 1920.