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i
Chinese Author
Tells Why The
Chinese Battle
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The following analytical des
cription of the Sin-Japanese war
explains to a great extent the
present resistance offered by the
Chinese against the Japanese in
vasion. It was printed in the
New York Times Magazine, writ
ten by Lin Yutang, noted Chin
ese author. The story follows:
Can Japan conquer China? To
day, as so frequently in recent
years, that is the question. There
is no doubt that today Japan is
launched on a more extensive
Chinese campaign than ever be
fore. and that the “conquest" of
China is her intention. But can
China be conquered?
t To answer that question we
must keep in mind some of the
fundamental factors in the Far
Eastern drama.
The present Sino-Japanese war
is likely to determine the course
of developments in the Far East
for the next few decades. Both
nations are fighting for peace,
but in different terms—China for
a chance to develop normally in
to a moderate State and enjoy
peace as an independent power,
Japan for peace with complete
domination over Eastern Asia.
And no one can pretend that this
is a private affair between two
distant Far Eastern nations and
that the question of whether ^
Japan dominates China and es
tablishes a powerful mainland
empire has nothing to do with
the Western world.
Today two old assumptions are
no longer true in Eastern Asia:
first,the belief of the Chinese that
they can "get by" without fight
ing, and second, the belief of the
Japanese that they can “get away
with it" without fighting. It is a
“showdown" to settle certain fun
damental issues. In order to un
derstand the issues involved it is
necessary to understand the Jap
anese technique of conquest as
heretofore revealed. More im
portant than the fighting around
Peiping, Tientsin and Shanghai
are certain dire inferences to be
drawn from this technique of con
quest.
The antecendents of the pres
ent situation are these: in the last
six years the Chinese have adopt
ed a policy of temporizing and
trying to “get by” wtihout fight
ing. resulting in the successive
Japanese invasions of Manchuria
in 1931. Jehol in 1932, East Hopeh
in 1936 and now North Hopeh in
1937.
The technique of conquest is
now familiar to the world. Geo
graphically. there is always a
frontier between and Japanese
controlled territories; the frontier
, must be demilitarized on the
Chinese side for the maintenance
of "peace"; the demilitarized zone
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in time unaccountably develops a
‘‘popular” autonomous movement
and sets up a regime friendly to
Japan and is practically Japanese
controlled. Then the next Chin
ese territory lying close to this
Japanese-controlled “autonomous
area" proves to be “provacative”
and must be evacuated by Chin
ese troops; a new demilitarized
zone is necessary; a new autono
mous regime springs up in that
zone. It is a process of subter
ranean erosion. The Chinese un
derstand this process,and because
the threat has now become im
mediate the present war cannot
be lightly terminated.
The depth and nature of the
conflict will determine the extent
of the war. Its course will be de
termined by China’s power of re
sistance, Japan’s military power
and social-economic situation, &
always in the offing, the chance
of Russia’s coming in at the point
of Japan’s financial exhaustion,
as America entered the World
War. Bearing always in mind
that the last two are factors just
as important. I propose to deal
with China's power of resistance
and her military tactics.
Chinese nationalism, patriotism
and anti-Nipponism are synoym
ous terms. In a sense this war
is a war around Chinese national
ism and what Japan is going to
do about it. Japan must crush
this Chinese nationalism unless
her dream of empire is to vanish.
1 What is this Chinese national
ism? It is both old and new.
i China’s old nationalism is a sim-,
pie thing—just racial pride. It is
not true that the old. ignorant!
Chinese peasants have no racial;
pride or consciousness; they are
merely pacifist by temperament
and culture and like to avoid tro
uble. Racial pride and hatred are
age-old things, not produced by
modern civilization alone. The
revolution of 1911 was purely a
racial revolution, understood by
the masses as “driving out the
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