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James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale professor took him aside and suggested a career in intelligence, it became clear that he would spend his adult life returning to China again and again.

Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the U.S.'s top-ranking diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and finally, ambassador to China. From helping Laotian insurgent forces assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his life tending to America's interests in Asia. In China Hands, he includes three generations of stories from an American family in the Far East, all of them absorbing, some of them exciting, and one, the loss of Lilley's much loved and admired brother, Frank, unremittingly tragic.

China Hands is a fascinating memoir of America in Asia, Asia itself, and one especially capable American's personal history.

During a government career spanning four decades, James Lilley served in the CIA, White House, State Department, and Defense Department. He is the only American to have served as the head of the American missions in Beijing, where he was ambassador from 1989-1991, and Taiwan, where he was Director of the American Institute in Taiwan from 1982-1984. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1986-1989. He is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Jeffrey Lilley is a journalist. He lives in Silver Springs, Maryland, with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents
Note to the Reader ix
Prologue xi
Part I Growing Up, 1916-1947
1 "Where the Daisies Cover the Country Land" 3
2 Only a Memory 24
3 Americanization 35
4 An Anguished Cry 47
Part II Intelligence Officer in Action, 1948-1968
5 A Ready Recruit 65
6 A Covert Foot Soldier 77
7 On the Edge of Conflict 97
8 Running the Secret War 106
9 Of Coups, Floods, and Failures 119
Part III China Opens Up, 1969-1981
10 Reading the Tea Leaves 135
11 Breaking Down Walls 152
12 Kissinger's Man in China 169
13 Good Fortune 196
14 Riding a Wave 213
Part IV Diplomat in Action, 1982-1991
15 Righting the Balance 227
16 The Golden Years 249
17 Pushing for Change 264
18 "Through the Blur of Our Tears" 282
19 Stepping on a Volcano 297
20 Small Victories 335
Epilogue 373
Acknowledgments 383
Notes 385
Bibliography 402
Index 406
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