BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Summary This is the story of an Australian boy, born in England in 1936 to the economist, Colin Clark, taken to live in wartime Queensland and then raised on a small farm outside Brisbane. At age 16

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Back to Australia2. Into Canberra3. A China Connection4. Into Hong Kong When I finished up at Oxford university, future career was far from certain. I had decided I did not want to stay on to study

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Into China – via Hong Kong and Taiwan, plus Japan 1. Suez Canal Lessons2. Journalist Spies3. Chinese Reality4. Learning the Language5. Into Taiwan6. Hospitality, KMT Style7. Gently into Japan The two years in Hong Kong (December 59-February

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Into Canberra via some Asian Realities 1. Via North Borneo and Sarawak2. On The China Desk3. The Lee Kwan Yew Election4. China and the Korean War5. Personalist Biases 6. The Sino-Indian Frontier Dispute By the time I got

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES En Route to the USSR, Via the US 1. Posted to Moscow2. Learning the Language3. Across the USA4. Across the Iron Curtain5. Australian Embassy, Moscow Late 1962. I am due to move again 1. Posted to Moscow The

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. The KGB has pounced2. The Saferoom Drama3. The Russian Speakers Dilemma It was one of those beautifully warm early Moscow summer weekends when all life and nature seemed at ease with itself and the idea of KGB

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Post-Morrison 1. Close the Embassy?2. Footloose in the USSR3. Searching for D With Morrison gone and his replacement in place (a nice enough man called Pethybridge), the Embassy settled down to its regular routine of basically doing