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Confident that Japan will never be able to subdue the Chinese people Professor King Yang Kuo, director of the Chinese Institute of Physiology and Psychology declared yesterday afternoon that it was only a matter of time until his people, with the help of foreign nations, can drive the Japanese from China, itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINESE PROFESSOR LOOKS FOR UNITED STATES AID TO DRIVE OUT JAPANESE | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

With American aid China hopes to eventually win out; modern weapons, especially new airplanes, will turn the tide of battle. Japanese military spokesmen, Kuo continued, openly admit that they will be unable to subdue China, but hope to keep what they have already obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINESE PROFESSOR LOOKS FOR UNITED STATES AID TO DRIVE OUT JAPANESE | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

United States aid to China, according to Kuo, also benefits the Americas in that it helps to remove the Japanese threat from its western bases and shores. Effective Chinese aid with modern equipment would force Japan to concentrate its efforts in China, weakening the forces it would be able to muster against the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINESE PROFESSOR LOOKS FOR UNITED STATES AID TO DRIVE OUT JAPANESE | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...Chinese] people's modes of living are becoming more complicated, more disorderly and with fewer standards than ever before," said Dean Chen Kuo-fu of the Central Political Institute at Chungking. "This situation must be remedied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chungking Prepares for Summer | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...were written in the vernacular. The least "literary" of great fiction, they mixed myth and legend with realistic anecdotes of love, family life, singsong girls, bandits, war lords, scholars, intrigue. This bootleg literature, called hsiaoshuo, or "a little talk," is still read by millions of Chinese. Three Kingdoms (San Kuo), written in the 13th Century, is still the great source book of guerrilla tactics; All Men Are Brothers* (Shui Hu Chuan) is hailed by Reds as China's first Communist literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Talk | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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