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Born a Foreigner book. Part memoir, part diplomatic history, Born a Foreigner traces Ambassador Cross's personal odyssey as a boy born in Beijing to missionary parents, a teenager under the Japanese occupation of Nort In this absorbing work, a thoughtful career diplomat provides a perceptive, sometimes controversial overview of the intense . connection with East Asia in the twentieth century.

Charles Cross was born in Beijing, China, to American missionaries. "Born A Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia". His mother opened China's first kindergarten in 1919, and his father taught philosophy at Yenching University. Growing up in China, he was personally acquainted with Asian history at a time when most Americans are confined to headlines and history books; he was, for example, an eyewitness as a teenager to the brutal Japanese occupation of China.

Charles T. Cross's, Born a Foreigner presents an intimate look into American diplomacy in Asia. So I began reading "Born a Foreigner" with high expectations because it was written by the son of missionaries to China. Unfortunately, not all MKs turn out sophisticated and nuanced. Chuck" Cross was born in Beijing to American missionary parents, and lived there until he left for college just before World War II. In Marine intelligence in the war, Cross was in the major battles in the Pacific theater, including Saipan and Iwo Jima.

Cross, who was born of missionary parents in Beijing, spent 32 years in the US Foreign Service, and though his tours abroad included Egypt, Cyprus and London, most were in Asia and it is on these which this memoir concentrates. He served in Indonesia and Malaysia, and in Vietnam (where he was chief of pacification efforts in I Corps) during the critical years 1967 to 1969

Born in Beijing to missionaries, Cross is personally acquainted with Asian history at a time when most Americans are confined to headlines and history books.

Born in Beijing to missionaries, Cross is personally acquainted with Asian history at a time when most Americans are confined to headlines and history books. He was an eyewitness as a teenager to the brutal Japanese occupation of China, fought at Iwo Jima as a Marine, and then served throughout East Asia during a thirty-two-year career in the Foreign Service that included. MORE BY William J. Dobson. Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia.

Born a Foreigner : A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia. By (author) Charles T. Cross.

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Part memoir, part diplomatic history, Born a Foreigner traces Ambassador CrossOs personal .

Part memoir, part diplomatic history, Born a Foreigner traces Ambassador CrossOs personal odyssey as a boy born in Beijing to missionary parents, a teenager under the Japanese occupation of North China, a Japanese-speaking Marine Corps officer in WWII, and as a diplomat posted to sensitive areas throughout the world. Covering the long sweep of historical events in Asia from revolutionary China in the 1920s and 1930s to the full normalization of Sino-American diplomatic relations in 1979 and their aftermath in Taiwan, CrossOs memoir will interest anyone seeking an insiderOs view of . As a missionary’s son in China, a soldier in the Pacific war, and a career diplomat, Chuck Cross was an eyewitness to America’s fateful encounters in Asia across five decades. His memoir is history at close-up range, full of revealing, well-observed details. Diplomats are schooled to take the world as it is, and these are a professional’s recollections.

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