China and the West

United States Envoys/Ambassador to China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_China#List_of_Envoys_to_the_Qing_Empire.
1843-1844 Caleb Cushing
1945-1947 Alexander Hill Everett
1948-1950 John W. Davis
1852-1854 Humphrey Marshall
1853-1854 Robert Milligan McLane
1855-1857 Peter Parker
1857-1858 William B. Reed
1858-1860 John E. Ward
1861-1867 Anson Burlingame
1868-1869 John Ross Browne
1869-1873 Frederick F. Low
1874-1875 Benjamin Avery
1876-1880 George Seward
1880-1881 James Burrill Angell
1882-1885 John Russell Young
1885-1898 Charles Harvey Denby
1898-1905 Edwin H. Conger
1905-1909 William Woodville Rockhill
1909-1913 William James Calhoun
1913-1919 Paul Reinsch
1920-1921 Charles R. Crane
1921-1925 Jacob Gould Schurman
1925-1929 John MacMurray
1929-1941 Nelson T. Johnson
1941-1944 Clarence E. Gauss
1944-1945 Patrick J. Hurley
1946-1949 John Leighton Stuart
1953-1957 Karl L. Rankin
1958-1962 Everett Drumright
1962-1963 Alan G. Kirk
1963-1965 Jerauld Wright
1966-1974 Walter McConaughy
1974-1979 Leonard S. Unger
1979-1981 Leonard Woodcock
1981-1985 Arthur W. Hummel
1985-1989 Winston Lord
1989-1991 James Lilley
1991-1995 J. Stapleton Roy
1996-1999 Jim Sasser
1999-2001 Joseph Prueher