Friday 29 July 2022

1453) William Woodville Rockhill

William Woodville Rockhill (1854 – 1914). United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China.

He served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and wrote numerous books about Tibet.
 
- "Rockhill had red hair, which may show up either dark or light depending on the film employed." https://books.google.it/books?id=UsC1sEKQNeYC&pg=PA285...
 
- "Six-feet-four with a shock of red hair and a mustache right out of The Three Musketeers..." https://books.google.it/books?id=XzQKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108...
 

 

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