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China, Japan and the U.S.A.

John Dewey

Language:
English
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Clean text
Extent:
~26,300 words · 125 passages
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What it is about

China, Japan and the U.S.A.: an article on American policy in East Asia after the First World War.

Context and history

Dewey writing on current affairs from what he had seen first-hand. An article, not a book.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

_The articles following are reprinted as they were written in spite of the fact that any picture of contemporary events is modified by subsequent increase of knowledge and by later events. In the main, however, the writer would still stand by what was said at the time. A few foot notes have been inserted where the text is likely to give rise to misapprehensions. The date of writing has been retained as a guide to the reader._ I On Two Sides of the Eastern Seas It is three days' easy journey from Japan to China. It is doubtful whether anywhere in the world another journey of the same length brings with it such a complete change of political temper and belief. Certainly it is greater than the alteration perceived in journeying directly from San Francisco to Shanghai. The difference is not one in customs and modes of life; that goes without saying. It concerns the ideas, beliefs and alleged information current about one and the same fact: the status of Japan in the international world and especially its attitude toward China. One finds everywhere in Japan a feeling

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