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Asia. February 1938

1938

The affair brought about in Tokyo fresh clashes—political and personal —between the civilian government and the military between the navy and the army and within the army between the older and the younger officers. [...] The impression of wealth and power which might have been created by the scale of the origiial plan and the magnificence of the ancestral temple in its center is marred by the obvious signs of present indigence. [...] The houses are built in close adherence to the traditional style with only such modifications as the use of steel for gratings and an ornamental gate and the addition of a balconied upper story to the main house—on the model of the new homes erected by returned emigrants in the near-by city. [...] On the cotrary the more we study such facts as have here been sketched the more evident it becomes that next to the demoralization of the administrative system tward the end of the Manchu Dynasty foreign ecroachments on China have been the chief cause of the present deplorable situation. [...] The said water to be thrown on the white dog (kennel port side of the boat deck) to keep him from barking." Fred the Dane is now a celebrity: the one passenger on board to have the honors of the log.
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Pages
77
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Richard J. Walsh view
Frontmatter
i-iii Richard J. Walsh view
The Month in the Orient
75-76 Richard J. Walsh view
“Incidents”
77-78 Richard J. Walsh view
Portrait of a Chinese Town
79-84 Bruno Laskar view
On the Bridge
85-90 Marc Aven view
His Last Mountain
91-98 Annemarie Clark-Schwarzenbach view
Island Daughters of Joy
99-101 Ida Treat view
The U.S.S.R. Digs for Gold
102-106 Samuel S. Shipman view
Japanese Women Press on
107-111 Sumie Mishima view
The Ndre Haunted House
112-113 Robert B. Ekvall view
Asia Book-Shelf
114-118 Richard J. Walsh view
Trade Currents
119-119 Richard J. Walsh view
Marginal Notes
120-ii Richard J. Walsh view
The One Hope for China
123-125 Nathaniel Peffer view
An Open Letter to the Chinese People
126-128 Pearl S. Buck view
The Far-Flung Japanese
129-132 Willard Price view
Imperial Singapore
133-135 Ernest O. Hauser view
The No Man’s Land of Asia
136-139 Paul Scheffer view
The Passing of the Chinese Soviets
140-142 Nym Wales view
I Recall I Imagine and I Doubt Not
143-143 Kao Tsengtun view
War Landscape
144-144 Richard J. Walsh view
Mo-Tze
144-144 Richard J. Walsh view

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