A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants

by Drake, Earl

• ISBN13: 9780802044648
• ISBN10: 0802044646
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781442670495
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Humorous, sharply written, and frank, the events recounted in these recollections include a first-hand account of the growing depth and complexity of Canada?s postwar relations with Asia.

Author Biography

EARL DRAKE is currently an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and Project Director, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue	xiii
A Prairie Puritan from Saskatchewan	3	(12)
A Neophyte at External: Ottawa, 1955 and 1959--1961	15	(10)
Getting Hooked on the Foreign Service: Pakistan, 1956--1958	25	(23)
A Dancing Leader: Prime Minister Suhrawardy of Pakistan	48	(14)
Confrontation and Partisanship: Malaysia, 1961--1964	62	(15)
An Avuncular Leader: Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia	77	(15)
International Development: Ottawa, 1965--1968 and 1972--1975	92	(21)
The Temptations of Paris: The OECD, 1968--1972	113	(18)
The Mighty World Bank: Washington, 1975--1982	131	(19)
A Controversial Leader: McNamara of the World Bank	150	(14)
The Poetic in the Midst of Reality: Indonesia, 1982--1983	164	(17)
An Iconoclast in China: Beijing, 1987--1989	181	(18)
Tiananmen Crisis: China, 1989--1990	199	(16)
An Unloved Leader: Premier Li Peng of China	215	(14)
Epilogue	229	(10)
Notes	239	(4)
Index	243