The Chinese are only too often ready to sweep the dust of reality under the carpet of appearance.
China Quotes
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
“We shall fight until all anti-Japanese feeling is stamped out and the Chinese are ready to cooperate with us.” I-wan stared at him, not believing what he heard. “You mean,” he repeated, “you will kill us and bomb our cities – and – and – rape our women – until we learn to love you?”
The people there gave us a certaine Drinke called Chaa, which is only water with a kind of herbe boyled in itt. It must bee Drancke warme and is accompted wholesome.
At five in the morning Peking has a disembodied air; its strange pearly quality achieves no sort of shape in the half-light; its outlines are blurred and misty; it is rather like existing within a seventeenth century Chinese water-color. It is lovely, but eerie.
The final death count was almost incredible, between 1,578,000 and 6,325,000 people. R. J. Rummel gives a prudent estimate of 3,949,000 killed, of which all but 400,000 were civilians. But he points out that millions more perished from starvation and disease caused in large part by Japanese looting, bombing, and medical experimentation. If those deaths […]
