Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, who once warned Germany that Britain could beat her at the barter game, and Mr. Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, Foreign Office economist who also has written novels about Japan under the name of John Paris. Evidently Dictator Joseph Stalin was now to have his share of "appeasement...
...University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...Iwan, idealistic favorite son of a powerful Shanghai banker. Drawn into a secret group of revolutionary students, he organizes an armed corps among the Shanghai silkworkers, narrowly escapes Chiang Kai-shek's blood purge of the Communists in 1927. His father saves his life by exiling him to Japan...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...