China: The Remembered Life
by Paul Frillmann, Graham Peck
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Author: Graham Peck, Paul FrillmannIntroduction: John K. Fairbank
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1968
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 291
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Book Review: THE CHINA EXPERIENCE
Summary: 5 Stars
of Paul Frillman as related in this book is more than just an adventure story but is one man's singular evolution of character as he finds himself through his life in China. Paul Frillman was trained as a Lutheran missionary and sent to Hankow ( now Wuhan) in China in 1937 to serve in the mission there. It was here that he learned to speak Chinese and also met many of the people who would shape his life in the years to come. He was able to meet such diverse people as writers Anna Louse Strong, Ilona Rolf Sues, Agnes Smedley and Freda Utley, four very remarkable women. He also met Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and his beautiful American educated wife, Mai-Ling Soong, better known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Most significantly of all, he was able to meet Claire Lee Chennault, newly appointed Air Adviser to Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT Nationalist Chinese Government, then already at war with Japan. He also met John Paton Davies, the American Consul and many, many others as well. When the Japanese took Hankow , Frillman was left behind to guard the Lutheran interests there but also found himself protecting the Chinese of the nearby village from the the predations of the Japanese military. His experiences here are truly remarkable and and allowed him to forge true friendships with the Chinese villagers, something that would not have occurred but for the war. This part of the book truly tears at the heart.
After his tour for the mission he returned to his home in a small town outside of Chicago. He found himself unable to adjust to the now staid existence of middle class America. He had begun to resign himself to his misery when he received a phone call from John Davies. The call asks him to join Clare Chennault for an important mission to China. The next day a telegram arrived from Chennault himself with the same request. The second of his three China adventures was about to begin, this time as the Chaplin for the American Volunteer Group or the "Flying Tigers" as they would later be called.
His life with the AVG and later with the 14th Air Force and then as an OSS officer behind Japanese lines are nothing short of amazing as the reader will discover. After the war he became a State Department official and a Consul in Hong Kong. His experiences with the U. S. State Dept. and the McCarthy era witch hunts make for for very interesting reading as do his succinct observations on the John Birch Society. Frillman was ably assisted in writing this book by Graham Peck, another man with singular experience in China. This fabulous book is now out of print but is certainly worth the effort of obtaining a used copy. It should also be mandatory reading for U. S. State Department employees, at least for the ones that can read.
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