EM 42: Our Chinese Ally (1944)
By Owen and Eleanor Lattimore
Mr. Lattimore, Director, Pacific Operations, Office of War Information
(Published August 1944)
Where Is China and What Does It Look Like?
- China’s Provinces
- Thirty Centuries of Isolation
- What Are Chinese Like?
- Where Do the Chinese Live?
- Two Occupational Groups
- Modern Chinese
The Oldest Living Civilization
- We Were Once the “Backward” Ones
- In the Beginning
- How Dynasties Rose and Fell
- Of What Use Today Is an Old Civilization?
- Superior China
- The Opium War and the Superior West
- The Open Door Held China Together
- The First Revolution Got Rid of the Manchus
- The Second Revolution United China
- Preparing for the Storm
- The War Began on Manchuria
- The Sian Kidnaping
- The “China Incident”
- Trading Space for Time
- Magnetic Warfare and Guerilla Fighting
- After Pearl Harbor
- Is China a Democracy?
- Going to School in Wartime
- Industrial Cooperatives
- Modern Chinese Women
- But China Is Not Yet Modernized
- After the War
- Who Are the Chinese?
- The Oldest Civilization—Asset or Liability?
- A Miracle?
- Is China a Democracy?
- China Tomorrow
Primary source documents from 1944–46