Word: antiforeign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen is China's leading Confucian-in-politics, and he stresses the excellence of all-or most-things Chinese. Yet Chen is not antiforeign. He deplores the tendency of Westernized Harvardman T. V. Soong to infuse massive doses of Westernization into a country which, so far, has been at least as much hurt as helped by contact with the West. Like any thoughtful Oriental, Chen is aware of the Japanese example of too rapid, superficial absorption of Western ways. Chen says...
...midst of that swing-back now. Those who a year ago could hardly find words good enough with which to describe our Chinese allies now can hardly find words bad enough. To hear them talk now, all Chinese are lazy, are crooks, and grafters, are obstructionists, antiforeign, hopelessly inefficient, split up into political factions interested more in preserving themselves than in defeating Japan, expecting us to do all the fighting, and so forth, and so forth. Between those two extremes, where is the truth? Some of you have asked me that question. I thought if you were going...