and Reinsch’s management of China, 100

reports about in Hawaii, 242, 246, 250–255

and Shangtung question, 109

and Siberian intervention, 116

in Vietnam, 261–268

War Department, 132

Warburg, Theodore, 89

Washington Arms Conference, xlviii

water, 184, 255, 304–305

weapons, 170, 265

Webster, Texas, 63

Wellesley, Sir Victor, 148

Wells, Merle W., 141

westernization, 274

Whampoa Military Academy, 167

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 138

White terror, 169

White, John Albert, xlix, lii, 114

William H. Donald, 99

Williams, E.T., 105

Williams, William Appleman, xxi, xxvi, xlviii, xlix, 12

Wilson, Huntington (Ambassador), 18, 31, 79

Wilson, President Woodrow (1856–1924), xxvii, xxix

women, xix, xxiv, xxxi, 131, 171, 185, 198

author’s cultural memories of in Japan, 273, 282, 303

and emancipation, 170

as marginalized peoples, xvi–xvii

in occupied China, 254

as picture brides, 61

World War I, xvii–xviii, xlii, 13, 19, 85, 129–130, 138, 195, 241

World War II, xvii, xviii, 13

Wray, Harold, 197

Wright, Luke E. (U.S. Ambassador), 47

Wu P’ei-fu, 170, 234

Wuhan government, xxxi, 172–175

Yada Chonosuke (Japanese Consul), 57

Yale Review, xliv

Yamagata Aritomo (Prime Minister), 29, 115, 206

Yamagata Aritomo (Prince), 29, 115

Yamashita Akimaro, 302

Yamato Ichihashi, xlv

Yanaihara Tadao, 214

Yangtze River, China, 15–16, 101, 104, 173, 232–233, 235

Yangtze Valley, China, 15, 101, 104

Yap cable station controversy, 158

Yellow River, China, xvi, 16, 182, 186

Yenan Way, xxxiii

Yokohama Specie Bank, 107, 288

Yokohama, Japan, 52, 86, 107, 247, 249, 288

Yomiuri Hochi, 247, 285–287, 300–301

Yoshisada Nonami, 61

Yoshizawa-Karakhan Agreement, 118

Yuan Shih-k’ai (President of China), 99, 101, 107, 119, 142, 161, 185

Yuan, Tsing, xlix

Yusha (General), 31

Zinn, Howard, x, xi