Crow Herbert Carl (3 results)
Scientific Progress And Human Values: Proceedings Of The Conference Celebrating The 75Th Anniversary Of The California Institute Of Technology
Hutchings, Edward And Elizabeth (Editors), Preface By Lee A. Dubridge; Murray Gell-Mann, Jesse L. Greenstein, Robert P. Sharp. William Penney, George E. Mueller, John R. Pierce, James F. Crow, John Z. Young, Neal E. Miller, Robert S. Morison, Robert L. Sinsheimer, Asa Briggs, Daniel Bell, Herbert J. Muller, Don K, Price Jr., James Bonner, Carl Kaysen, Simon Ramo, Lord James Of Rusholme
Language: English
Published by American Elsevier, New York, 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ix, 219 Pp. Orange Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Spine Ends, Previous Owner's Blindstamp On First Front Free Endpaper. Dj Near Fine, Tiny Ink Spot At Top Of Front Panel.
Language: English
Published by London, Hamish Hamilton, 1939
- Hardcover
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Condition: Wie neu. 14 cm x 22 cm. 311 pages. Illustrations including frontispiece, portraits and 15 plates, in black and white. Original hardback. Some discoloration to the binding but overall in very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 February 25, 1878) was an American…merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period. Harris was born in the village of Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls), in Washington County in upstate New York. He moved early to New York City, where he became a successful merchant and importer from China. (Wikipedia) ____________________________________________________________________________ Carl Crow (18841945) was a Missouri-born newspaperman, businessman, and author who managed several newspapers and then opened the first Western advertising agency in Shanghai, China. He ran the agency for 19 years, creating calendar advertisements and the so-called sexy China Girl poster. He was also the founding editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. With A.R. Burt and J.B. Powell, Crow published the bilingual Biographies of Prominent Chinese (c.1925). In the 1930s and 1940s, Crow wrote 13 books, including the explanation of his Confucianism, Master Kung: The Story of Confucius (1937); the anecdotal The Chinese are Like That (1938), titled My Friends the Chinese in England; and his most popular book, 400 Million Customers (1937). The latter won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1937, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. 400 Million Customers has been reprinted at least twice in the new millennium. Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for a quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking ad-man. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book 400 Million Customers, which encouraged a flood of business into China in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. In 1935, the Shanghai Municipal Council published a map for visitors to the city which they commissioned Crow to produce. A reproduction of the map was printed in 2005 to help fund the copying of the archive of Crow's unpublished works, diaries and correspondence held at the University of Missouri. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking which led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on the Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met and interviewed most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao Zedong's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, co-ordinating US policies to support China against Japan. He was very anti-Japanese, and fearing retribution he left Shanghai for good in 1937, just days after the Japanese attacked as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War's Battle of Shanghai. He returned to Chongqing in 1939, entering China via the Burma Road from Rangoon to Kunming. He wrote a diary of this time which has been edited by Shanghai-based English writer Paul French, and published as Carl Crow: The long road back to China. He died in Manhattan in 1945. (Wikipedia).
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unknown_binding. Condition: Good. Hamish Hamilton 1938 cheap edition on yellow cloth.
