Word: occidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction: Scholem Asch's "The Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify...
Confusion. A half-century ago a Japanese samurai advised his Emperor: "Wait for the time of the confusion of Europe ... we may then become the chief nation of the Orient." Two years ago the Occident was certainly confused:
The Shanghai open money market soon reacted to the Occident's firm stand at Shanghai and Amoy. In terms of U S dollars, the Japanese yen fell below the value of the Chinese dollar, the yen falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the...
The preservation of this band and its work is equivalent to the preservation of China. Upon the Chinese intellectual rests the fate of his nation in the struggle with the Rising Sun, Only he is in contact with the current of scientific development which flows in the Occident. Only he...
...unpleasant realities of 1938 for the Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental trade out of Manchukuo. Japan's conquest of Canton last month put 20,000 British traders in Hong Kong temporarily, if not permanently, out of business. The Yangtze Valley is virtually closed to all except Japanese salesmen...