To change China: Western advisers in China, 1620-1960

Schall and Verbiest: to God through the stars.

Peter Parker: bodies or souls.

Ward and Gordon: glorious days of looting.

Lay and Hart: power, patronage, and pay.

Martin and Fryer: trimming the lamps.

Edward Hume: Yale for China.

Mikhail Borodin: life in the sun.

Todd and Bethune: overcome all terrors.

Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer: a compass for Shangri-La.

The last rounds: U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

Conclusion.

Chapter notes (p. [294]-325)