BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES A Night in Podolsk 1. The Pressure Rises2. The KGB Trap3. A Night in Podolsk4. Escaping the Trap5. Some Self Reflection I had long suffered KGB attentions — something inevitable for a Russian-speaking, bachelor diplomat determined to go

1. A Difficult Decision2. The Vietnam Factor3. The Seeming Hasluck Farce4.  Hasluck: Acting at US Request?5. A Global Tragedy: The Mistaken Views of the Sino-Soviet Dispute6. The Burchett Factor: A Decision to Leave My career was at a crossroads.  At the very young age of 28 I had already been

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Trying to Leave the USSR 1. A New Career? Japan?2. The KGB Strikes, Again3. Some Siberian Truths4. Getting out of Moscow5. More KGB Tricks?6. Back to Canberra, via Israel   My first and rather impetuous move was to

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. A New Career2. ANU Connections3. The China Slot. Giving it Away?4. Discovering Canberra’s True Role over Vietnam5.Becoming a Student Again6. Discovering the World Outside7. Cutting the Umbilical Cord?8. The External Affairs ‘Family’9.  Rude Reality 1. A

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. My Foolish Disclosure2. ASIO Dogs Unleashed3. The Suspicious Telephone Call4. The Fake Telephone Call5: ASIO: The Bumblers6. Final Decision: Out of EA It happened like this: Having arranged with EA for my study leave, I had

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES  Fighting Windmills, Getting Nowhere 1. Connecting with the The Australian 2. Joining the Vietnam War Debate3. A Run-in with The Bulletin4. The Australian Institute of Political Science5. The Asian Languages Fiasco  September 1965. After almost a decade

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES  Confused: Studying Economics and Japanese,  more Sino-Soviet Dispute, pushing the Enclave Solution for Vietnam, Writing a Book about China 1.  A Book about China?2.  Back to the PhD – Learning Economics 3.  Learning Japanese4.  The Sino-Soviet Dispute5. Jim

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES The Early Years – Getting Organised 1. The Hitotsubashi Connection2. The Ajiken Connection 3. Organising a life in Japan 4. The China Book emerges Early 1967. I am already well into the second year of my ANU scholarship, having spent

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. PAFTA Japan’s New Trade Policy2. PAFTA becomes PAFTA3. APEC to the Rescue4. Australia claims the Limelight In the 1960’s the Japanese rightwing, Kojima included, had a problem.  The then strong leftwing was arguing that Japan’s postwar