Word: occidentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not all of Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city...
Last week that resistance crumbled. In Tokyo, 126 (out of 466) members of the lower house of the Diet signed a petition denouncing Britain's "unpardonably atrocious" act in arresting nine Japanese as a retaliation for Japanese arrest of 15 alleged British spies. Next day the British War Office...