BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. The Devil’s Language2. Listening Problems3. Chinese Connections4. Chinese-origin Homophones5. Bad Romanisations6. Reading Japanese That one year in Japan – 1967-68 – was to be even more difficult than the two years in Moscow. And not just

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Relying on the Sub-Conscious 1. The Power of the Sub-Conscious2. Creating the Language Computer3. Free Conversation?4. Deep Listening5. Language as a Song6. MultiLingualism7. Reading Difficulties: ‘Listen’ to what you Read It is said that some 80 percent

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES En Route to Australia, via Southeast Asia including Thailand 1. An Unusual Research Technique2. The Thai Car Industry Model3. A Model of the Rest of the World4. The Market as a Factor of Production The year allowed for

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. ‘In Fear of China’2. The China Quarterly3. Publishing Problems4. Book Hegemony5. Publishing Mistakes6. More Book Reviews7. ANU Books8. Crawford’s Position9. The Vietnam View10. A Serious Reaction in Japan Eventually the hard-cover book emerged.  Almost 400 pages

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Caught between Witlam and Cairns 1.    Whitlam and Vietnam2.    Chinese ‘Invaders.’3.    Living with Jim Cairns4.    Neil Batt: The Australian Politician who got it Right5.    The Idiotic Whitlam Response In 1965-66, returning from

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1  Vietnam – A Barometer of Australian Crassness2. Guerrilla Warfare3. Dogs and Vietnam4. How to Protest5. The Australian Rightwing6. An ALP Experience The weakness of the Vietnam debate was not just a constant agony for me.  

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Defeated by Black-Information, Mendacity and Irrationality 1. Last Straw: Pringle of the SMH2. Black Information3. The Other Last Straw: The Burchett Persecution4. Escape to Japan The deceitful irrationality of a 1969 run in with the Sydney Morning

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Blocked in Every Direction 1. Thesis Preparation2. Problems with Australian Academia3.  More Brick Walls4. A Western Australian Connection5.  The One (and only one) Successful Japan Course6.  ANU ‘Excellence’7. A Personal Affair8. The Okita Saburo Connection9. The Hitotsubashi

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES The Dragon or the Samurai? 1. A China Opportunity2. The Call of Japan3. The Moment of Deciding4. Back to Japan via ‘The Australian?’5. The PhD Thesis Problem6.  Rationalisations With the door closed firmly on me in Australia,

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. A Brand-new Career 1. Apprentice Journalist2. Rupert Murdoch3. Preparing for Japan 4. Viewing The Pilbara Miracle Mid 1969: I have rebelled against the academic futility in Canberra.  I plan to get back to Japan.  From lofty academia I

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Finding an Office2. Nihon Keizai Shimbun3. Scoop Fever4. The Blind Wool-Market Manipulator Arriving in Tokyo in the middle of an especially vile summer, I had to set about opening an office.  It had to be a big one since