Oral history interview with Nelson Trusler Johnson, 1954.

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Family background and early life; experiences as student interpreter for Consular Service in China, 1907; Battle of the Concessions, Open Door Policy; Manchuria, 1909-1910; concession railways; Taiping rebellion; Revolution of 1911; Yale-in-China activities; Chinese social life and attitudes, early 1900s; recall to Washington and preparations for the Washington Conference; appointment as inspection officer in China, 1923

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• China--Foreign relations--United States.
• China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
• China--Social conditions.
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Nelson T. (Nelson Trusler), 1887-1954--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States--Foreign relations--China.
• United States. Department of State.

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