China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
By James R. Lilley and Jeffrey Lilley
PublicAffairs, May 2004
Review excerpt:
Born in 1928 in Tsingtao, China, where his father worked for Standard Oil, James Lilley has returned repeatedly to the Middle Kingdom, discovering traces of his family's past even as he charted his own path as a CIA officer and later as a top-ranking U.S. diplomat. China Hands (417 pages, PublicAffairs), the memoir that he wrote with his son Jeffrey, skillfully weaves together the personal and the political, leaving no doubt of the impact the two had on each other.
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