Word: orientale
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"The salient point about China's coming democracy," continued the Oriental geographer," is that in China for long ages past sound historical and philosophical foundations have already been laid. The doctrines of historical materialism and class struggle are not only alien but also repugnant to the Chinese mind."
The scholarly Oriental placed great emphasis on China's gigantic reconstruction job in the post-war years, and saw as one phase of the solution the large-scale immigration of Chinese farmers into regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated...
Publications form one of the most important parts of the work of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. The foundation publishes two regular works, a quarterly review of happenings significant to all students of Oriental languages, and a series of more permanent works.
Established in 1928 to provide for the studies of Oriental languages, literature, and history, the Harvard-Yenching Institute is today playing an important part in the development of Chinese-American cultural and political relations.
Seventeen and one-half feet in total height and over ten feet long at the base, the Oriental monster weighs more than 20 tons. When accepted by the University eight years ago it was placed first on a temporary scaffolding in the Yard, so that the authorities could be certain...