effects on diplomacy, 114–15
and foreigners, 30
and foreign policy, 4
history of, 27–29
Jiang Qing and, 271–74
Lin Biao and, 200–201
and Little Red Book, 73
Mao Tse-tung memorabilia from, 321
US awareness of, 107
USSR opinion of, 133
Czechoslovakia, 120, 133, 160, 259
D
Dairen (Manchuria), 126
Dalai Lama, 215
Damansky Island. See Zhenbao Island
Darwin, Charles, 37
Dean, John, 316
de Gaulle, Charles, 12, 32, 44, 51, 77
Democratic Party, 74, 103, 105, 199, 304, 315–16, 325
Deng Xiaoping, 322, 323
attains power, 321, 325
and Cultural Revolution, 29
retirement to south China, 320
as target of Jiang Qing, 319
Deng Yingchao (wife of Chou En-lai), 39, 40, 41
Dewey Thomas, 183
Diaoyutai (VIP compound, Beijing), 47–48, 66, 67, 70, 71, 145, 189, 206, 225, 308
Diplomats’ Big Building (diplomatic quarters, Beijing), 31
Discovery of India (Nehru), 232
Dobrynin, Anatoly
meetings with HK, 60, 189, 256, 281–83
meetings with RN, 122
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 272
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 15
Downey, John, 278–79
Dulles, John Foster, 111, 232, 243, 246, 260
and Chou En-lai, 33
nuclear weapons concerns, 245
views on Communism, 105, 112
E
Eagleton, Thomas, 315–16
East Germany, 129
Easy Rider (film), 117
economic zones (PRC), 321
Egypt, 120, 237
Ehrlichman, John, 55, 198, 270
as ‘Berlin Wall’, 267, 317
Nixon tapes, 58, 59
Eisenhower, Dwight, 13, 17, 182
Elbourne, Tim, 152
Elizabeth II, 31
Ethiopia, 24
Evergreen People’s Commune (Beijing), 271
F
Fallaci, Oriana, 51
Farland, Joseph, 183–84, 197
Fang Weng, 170
Finland, 32
‘Five golden flowers’ (Mao Tse-tung’s companions), 202
Five Principles, The (PRC foreign relations), 160–61
‘Flying Tigers’ (Second World War US pilots), 98
Foggy Bottom, 60, 61. See also State Department (US)
Forbidden City (Beijing), 26, 34, 71, 77, 176, 192, 277–78
Ford, Gerald, 238, 324
pardon of RN, 323
retention of HK as Secretary of State, 318, 322
RN advice to re HK, 55–56
Foreign Affairs (journal), 10, 111, 163
Four Marshals study group, 141–43, 146, 164, 189, 220
France, 30, 33, 35, 40, 114, 120
recognition of PRC, 31–32
Freeman, Charles, 227, 228, 287, 309
background, 155–56
comments on RN makeup, 64
comments on William Rogers, 63
as interpreter, 125, 155, 156
in National Security Council, 220
Fujian province, military build-up (1950), 242
Fuzhou, 245
G
Gandhi, Indira, 232, 280
meeting with HK (1971), 187
RN and HK view of, 216–17
Gang of Four, 221, 271, 294, 307, 321, 322
Gao Gang (Communist leader), 128
Garment, Leonard, 55
Gate of Heavenly Peace (Beijing), 45
Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), Mao Tse-tung’s death from, 318
Gelb, Leslie, 55
Geneva conference (1954), 33, 70, 105, 109, 111, 232, 260
George III, 73, 74
Germany, 35, 39
Girl Students’ Patriotic Association, 39
Goldwater, Barry, 213
Gone with the Wind (film), 322
Graduate, The (film), 204
Graham, Billy, 20
Grant, Ulysses S., 14
Great Depression, 42
Great Hall of the People (Beijing), 71, 132, 140, 145, 176, 222, 228, 275, 279, 296
Fujian Room, 192, 228
Great Leap Forward, 72, 79–80, 91, 107, 111, 113, 245
Great Wall of China, 37, 43, 206, 276–77
Green, Marshall, 197, 244, 304, 306
Asian tour (1969), 115
comments on HK, 62
concerns on communiqué, 300, 301, 303
interview with Ushida Nobuhiko, 286
meeting with RN (Indonesia, 1967), 12–13
and Shanghai communiqué, 310–11
Gromyko, Andrei, 131
Guevara, Che, 47
Guomindang (Chinese National People’s Party)
alliance with Communists, 40, 86
attack on, 41–42
and Chiang Kai-shek, 41–42
and Chinese Communist Party, 40
civil war and Communist victory, 43, 87–88
consolidation of power, 42
and later attack on, 41–42, 86–87
and Long March, 41
and PRC, 40
remnants in Burma, 244
retreat to Taiwan (1949), 43, 102, 241
and Soviet Union, 40
and Taiwan, 43
US support for, 3–4, 98–100
H
Haig, Alexander, 152, 197
as aide to HK, 58, 148, 151, 159, 218, 219
dealings with Chou En-lai (1972), 221–24, 259, 263
Haile Selassie, 24
Hainan Island, 242, 275
Haiphong, 264, 313 Haldeman, Bob, 55
comments on HK, 52, 57, 58, 63, 64
comments on RN, 19, 48, 308
at formal banquet, 148
news management, 18, 22, 24, 26, 59, 71, 149–50, 157, 197–98, 225, 266–67, 298, 301, 303
personal background, 267
RN and Mao Tse-tung meeting, 76, 225
and Watergate, 315, 316, 317
Hall of Beneficent Abundance (Beijing), 72
Halstead, Dirck, 268
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 44
Hangzhou (earlier Hangchow), 221, 292, 293, 297, 298, 300, 326
Hanoi, 139, 200, 258, 262, 313
Han Suyin, 28
Harvard Law School, 279
Harvard University, 50, 52, 54, 323
Heath, Edward, 76, 199, 280, 284
hegemony, PRC and, 235, 332
Helms, Richard, 56, 138
Hersh, Seymour, 63
He Zizhen (Mao Tse-tung’s second wife), 89–90, 273
Hilaly, Agha, 171, 178–79, 180, 182
Hirohito, Emperor (of Japan), 287
Hiss, Alger, 79, 149
Hitler, Adolf, 67, 93
Ho Chi Min, 138–39
Hoff, Joan, 60
Holdridge, John, 162, 189, 240, 298, 310, 328
ability in Chinese, 147
banquet in Great Hall, 148–49
comments on HK, 55, 187
on relations with Chinese, 109, 160–61
trip to PRC (1976), 27
Hong Kong, 31, 32, 106–7, 108–9, 112, 165, 169
Hong Kong Hilton, 196
House Judiciary Committee (US), Watergate conspiracy, 317
Hoxha, Enver, 157, 200
Hsing-hsing (panda), 147
Hsinhua news agency, 251
Hua Guofeng, 321 Huang Hua, 214, 219, 249, 307
and draft about RN and HK trips, 194–95
importance of handshake, 189
meeting with HK (1971), 218, 236
Hunan province, 81
I
Iceland, 108, 164
India, 31
confrontations with PRC (1962), 112–13, 115, 130, 136, 232, 234
India–Pakistan cris
is (1971), 214–18, 219, 233, 234
and Shanghai communiqué (1972), 294, 295, 331, 332
Indochina, 33, 104, 112, 113, 166, 168–69, 184, 191, 222, 231, 260
Indochinese Communist Party, 264
Indonesia, 31, 105, 112, 310
RN and Green, 12–13 ‘intermediate zones’ (PRC foreign policy), 113
International Control Commission, 166
Israel, 237, 278, 314
Italy, 32, 164, 170
Izvestia (Soviet newspaper), 282
J
Jammu (India), 331
Japan, 41
after Korean War, 104
and China, 37–38
Chou En-lai’s concerns about, 233
control of Korea and Taiwan, 35, 241
granted German possessions in China (1919), 39, 98
invasion of China (1937), 43, 87, 98
and Korea, 35
relations with US, 231, 283–88
and Russia, 36
seizure of Manchuria (1931), 42–43, 87, 98
and Shanghai communiqué (1972), 302, 332
and Taiwan, 35
and trade with PRC, 31
Javits, Jacob, 251
Jenkins, Al, 205, 207
Jiang Jieshi. See Chiang Kai-shek Jiang Qing (Mao’s third wife), 66, 67, 89, 93, 203
background, 272–73
career, 271–74
Cultural Revolution and, 273
delusions, 273
Deng Xiaoping and, 319
downfall of, 319, 320–22
in Long March, 272
marriage to Mao Tse-tung, 273
personality, 271–22
and RN visit, 146, 206, 221, 274–75
Jiangsu province, 35
Ji Chaozhu, 156
Jinjiang Hotel (earlier Grosvenor Mansions, Shanghai), 304
Ji Pengfei, 25, 146, 226, 227, 293
Johnson, Alexis, 286
Johnson, Lyndon B., 51, 54, 113, 116, 118
Judd, Walter, 103, 163
K
Kampuchea. See Cambodia Kashmir, 215, 295, 331
Kennan, George, 118
Kennedy, Edward, 16
Kennedy, John F., 9, 16, 17, 54, 64, 111–13, 116, 118
Kennedy, Robert, 116
Khan, Aub, 215
Khan, Yahya and HK trip to PRC (1971), 184, 186–88
as leader of Pakistan, 215–16, 219, 232–33
as RN intermediary with PRC, 162, 171, 172–73
role in RN–Mao Tse-tung meeting, 1
Khmer Rouge, 264
Khrushchev, Nikita, 11, 37, 47, 84, 90, 125, 130–32, 134, 160, 234
Kim Il Sung, 47, 300
King, Martin Luther, 116
Kissinger, Henry appointed National Security Adviser, 12, 48
attends RN and Mao Tse-tung meeting, 70, 72, 77
attraction to Republican party, 54
as author, 54
career after leaving political life, 322–23
character, 52–57, 55
and Chou En-lai, 44
comments on RN, 16, 17, 20
contempt for State Department, 48, 56, 60–64, 95, 159–60, 167–68, 226–27, 300
discussions with Chou En-lai (July and Oct. 1971), 5, 70
discussions with Chou En-lai on Taiwan, 184–85, 250–53
divorce, 54
education, 53
enjoyment of diplomacy, 50
exclusion of William Rogers from RN–Mao Tse-tung meeting, 72–73, 76
and Harvard University, 50, 323
intelligence sharing with PRC, 236–37, 238, 307
joins Harvard faculty, 54
and ‘linkage tactic’, 122, 263
Mao Tse-tung impression of, 76
meetings with Anatoly Dobrynin, 60, 189
meeting with Chou En-lai (1971), 61
military duty, 53–54
as National Security Adviser, 51–52
opinion on Japan, 284–85
personal life, 52–57
and policy shift towards PRC, 123
political affiliation, 54
PRC visit (July 1971), 5, 147, 154, 179–80, 183–97, 236, 260
PRC visit (Oct 1971), 70, 71, 151–52, 205–10, 236
PRC visits (Feb and Nov 1973), 314
PRC visit (1975), 319
preparation for PRC trip (1972), 21
relations with Chou En-lai, 25, 229–30
Secretary of State appointments, 48, 318, 322
and RN, 48, 51–52, 54–56, 57–60, 74, 219–20
at RN and Chou En-lai meeting, 48
RN and Mao Tse-tung jokes about, 1
RN departure for PRC (1972), 7
RNs resignation (1973), 317–18
as Secretary of State, 57
Shanghai communiqué negotiations, 293–98, 300–3, 306
signing of Vietnam peace agreement (1973), 264, 314
similarities to RN, 60, 61
teased by RN and Mao Tse-tung, 74
temper, 56
triangular democracy, 159, 235
views on foreign affairs, 48–51
views on US–PRC relationship, 10–11
winning of Nobel Peace Prize, 58, 264
Kissinger, Nancy (HK’s second wife), 323
Kissinger, Walter (HK’s brother), 53
Kissinger and Associates, 323 Klein, Herb, 17
Korea
and Japan, 35
Shanghai communiqué (1972), 302, 332
38th parallel, 104 war (150–53), 103–4, 129, 164, 200, 233–34, 243, 300
Korean War, 31, 33
Kosygin, Alexei, 137, 139–40, 144, 234
Kraemer, Fritz, 53–54
Kraft, Joseph, 25, 280–81
L
Laird, Melvin, 122
Laos, 112, 120, 187, 222, 232, 256, 258, 259, 263, 310
League of Nations, 14
Le Duan, 264
Le Duc Tho, 259, 264, 314
Lee Kuan Yew, 310–11
Lei Yang, 167, 168
‘Let It Be’ (song), 175
Levin, Herbert, 107
Leys, Simon, 125
Liberal Democrats (Japan), 284
Libya, 278
Li Dachao, 86
Life (magazine), 108, 312
Lin Bao, 89, 113, 138, 140, 213
Cultural Revolution and, 200–1
comment on Chou En-lai, 93
downfall, 2, 81, 169, 200–3, 206, 319
Lincoln Memorial, 169
Ling-ling (panda), 147
linkage, doctrine of (US), 122, 256, 263
Little Red Book, 24, 73, 114, 200, 269, 321
Liu Shaoqi, 28, 29, 111, 127, 201, 274
Li Zhisui, Dr, 66, 67, 75, 143–44, 273
Lloyd George, David, 46
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 183
London, Jack, 275
Long March (134–35), 44, 87, 89, 196
Chou En-lai and, 41
Jiang Qing and, 272
Mao Tse-tung and, 69
People’s Republic of China and, 41–42
Lon Nol, 169, 260
Look, So This Is the American Way of Life! (Chinese pamphlet), 107–8
Lord, Winston, 207, 294, 300–1
comments on China, 67, 68
deleted from photographs, 73
with HK (PRC, 1971), 185, 187, 188–89, 209, 236
with RN and HK (PRC, 1972), 7, 8, 67, 70–76
as US ambassador to PRC, 145
view of Mao Tse-tung, 77
Los Angeles Times, 306
Louis, Victor, 140
Luce, Henry, 21, 108, 163
M
MacArthur, General Douglas, 104
Macartney, Lord, 34, 73, 147
Malaya, 310
Malraux, André, 20, 21
Manchukuo (Japanese puppet state).See Manchuria
Manchuria, 35, 36, 43, 87, 126, 128, 134
Japanese seizure of, 98
Mansfield,
Mike, 162–63, 198
Mao An-ching (Mao Anqing; Mao Tse-tung’s younger son), 88
Mao An-ying (Mao Tse-tung’s elder son), 88, 89
maotai (Chinese alcohol), 148, 149, 222, 307
Mao Tse-tung. See also Cultural
Revolution; Great Leap Forward appearance, 88
character and personality, 78, 80, 82, 84–85, 88, 89, 90–94
and Chou En-lai, 40–42
compared to Chou En-lai, 45
creation of Four Marshals study group, 141–43, 164
and Cultural Revolution, 28, 29
early life, 81–84
fear of major Soviet attack (1969), 137–41
health, 23, 29, 66–67, 73, 75–76, 90, 93–94, 318–20
illness and death (1976), 318–20
legacy to China, 79–80
Long March, 69
meeting with RN, 1–2, 8, 67, 70–77
memorabilia, 320–21
motives for attack on Taiwan (1958), 131
motives for Zhenbao Island conflict (1969), 136–37, 138
and nuclear war, 131–33
opinion of HK, 1
opinion of RN and HK, 74–76
path to power, 43, 45, 69, 79, 80–81, 84–44
personal life and marriages, 86, 88–90
personal living conditions, 71–72
promotion of ‘intermediate zones’ policy, 113
punishment for criticizing, 29
purging of Lin Bao, 200–3
relations with Chou En-lai, 40, 41–42, 87, 93
relations with Chung Kai-shek, 74
visit to Moscow (1949), 128
Mao Zedong. See Mao Tse-tung
Marcos, Imelda, 271, 310
Marshal, Tito, 102, 128, 327
Marshall, General George, 99
Marshall Plan, 14
Marx, Karl, 38, 86. See alsoMarxism
Marxism, 38, 45, 46, 85, 86
Mathilda (musk ox), 236, 266
Matsu Island, 130, 131, 242, 245
Maxim’s (restaurant, Beijing), 321
May Fourth Movement (post-1911), 39
McCarthy, Joseph, 102, 105, 108
McFarlane, Robert, 56, 238
McGovern, George, 316
media relations, 71, 149–54, 178, 225, 266–68, 306, 311
Meiling Soong (wife of Chiang Kai-shek), 242
Metternich, Prince K.W von, 50, 51, 61, 208
Michener, James, 153
Milton (musk ox), 236, 266
Ming dynasty, 276
Ming Tombs, 31, 206, 268, 277
Minzu Hotel, 153
missionaries, 34, 96, 100
Jesuits, in China, 2–3
Mitchell, John, 52
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 128
moon rock, 147
Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh, 216, 217
Mukden. See Shenyang
Mundt, Karl, 163
Muskie, Ed, 199, 303, 304
My Lai massacre, 118. See also Vietnam War
N
Nancy. See Tang Wensheng
National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, 255
National Palace Museum (Taipei), 241
National People’s Party, 40
National Security Council, 12, 21, 51, 56, 58, 72, 161, 162, 186.