Nine Lives Author: Jia Yu
Stuart was born in 1876 to a missionary family in Hangzhou, China. In 1905, he took the baton from his parents and continued his missionary activities. In 1919, Stuart Became the first president of Yenching University. From 1922 onwards, he began to travel dozens of times between China and the United States, the largest of which was $1.5 million, which was an astronomical amount at the time.
It was because of this special experience that Marshall invited him to serve as U.S. ambassador to China shortly after his visit to China. After becoming ambassador to China, Stuart Layden completely fell to Chiang Kai-shek's side. However, the development of the situation was completely unexpected by him. With the victory of the three major battles of the CCP, Stuart Layden finally understood that American aid could no longer help Chiang Kai-shek stop the Communists.
In his report to Marshall on October 23, 1948, Stuart Redden even offered to suggest that we could advise Chairman Chiang Kai-shek to retire and give way to Li Zongren or other promising political leaders in the Kuomintang. At the same time, Situ Leiden also constantly wrote letters to Zhou Enlai, expressing his desire to personally go to Beiping and establish contacts with New China.
The Americans also knew that Chiang Kai-shek was unreliable, but they had no choice but to rely on Chiang Kai-shek to contain the Communists. They felt that after the Communist Party established a new government, it would be eager to win the recognition of the world and use this opportunity to continue to defend its interests in China. He ordered Stuart Leiden to remain in Nanjing and wait for the arrival of the Communists. After Chairman Mao saw clearly the political intentions of the Americans, he wrote the famous "Farewell, Stuart Layden!" ”
The People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River, and the American colonial government in Nanjing scattered like a bird. Ambassador Stuart Layden sat still, his eyes open, hoping to open a new store and fish for a handful. What did Stuart Redden see? In addition to seeing the People's Liberation Army marching in groups and workers, peasants, and students rising up in groups, he also saw a phenomenon in which Chinese liberals or democratic individualists also shouted slogans and revolution in large groups with workers, peasants, soldiers, and students. In short, no one paid attention to him, so that he was "standing tall and hanging on to each other", and there was nothing to do, so he had to pick up his purse and walk.
Chairman Mao said, farewell! But Stuart Redden himself was ten thousand reluctant. On August 2, 1949, when Stuart was passing through Okinawa on his way back to the United States, he issued a statement in favor of recognizing the Chinese Communist Party and maintaining commercial relations with it, but the U.S. government did not allow his statement to be published domestically and forbade him to make unauthorized statements about Sino-AMERICAN relations.
After returning to the United States, Stuart Layden was also unhappy, and many people who had dealings with the Chinese Communist Party were persecuted due to the prevalence of McCarthyism. Stuart Redden, however, escaped the disaster because of his half-body failure. After Situ Leiden fell ill, he was cared for by Fu Jingbo's family. Born into a Christian Manchu family, Fu Jingbo studied at Yenching University in his early years, during which time he was impressed by Stuart Leiden's spirit of running a school and determined to follow him all his life.
In September 1962, Stuart Layden died quietly in Washington. Stuart Layden regretted until his death that he had not been able to go to Beijing at that time. Stuart Saiden: The biggest regret in my life is that I did not cut first and play later, and before I asked the US Government for instructions, I should go directly from Nanjing to Beiping to meet with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, resulting in a fait accompli. Regrets, regrets, what a pity!
J On November 17, 2008, with the joint efforts of relevant Parties in China and the United States, the old American man "returned" to the shores of Xizi Lake and was buried in Anxian Garden in Hangzhou Mid-Levels.