George E. Taylor

George E. Taylor, head of the Far Eastern Department of the University of Washington, was an authority on the Far East. During the decade 1930 –1940 he spent eight years in China and Japan. He wrote regularly for the Manchester Guardian and the New Statesman, he taught at Yenching University, he collected medical supplies for the Chinese guerrillas and for a time traveled with them. He read and spoke Chinese. His books, Struggle for North China and America in the New Pacific, marked him as one of the most intelligent of our liaison officers with the Far East during his era.

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  1. Why We Do Not Recognize: Red China

    An expert on China, long respected on the West Coast as in Washington for his knowledge of the Orient, GEORGE E. TAYLOR is director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington. Before the war he taught in Chinese universities and saw the inception of the Communist movement in the northern provinces; during the war he served in the Office of War Information and with the State Department.

    George E. Taylor

  2. A New Look at Formosa

    GEORGE E. TAYLOR,historian and political scientist, who was with the Office of War Information from 1942 to 1945, and who since 1946 has been Director of the Far Eastern Institute at the University of Washington, has been contributing articles about the Orient to the Atlantic for more than a decade. In 1952 he made an extended tour of the Far East, and in his stay at Hong Kong and Formosa gathered material for this survey.

    George E. Taylor