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Title: China, Japan and the U.S.A.
Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing
on the Washington Conference

Author: John Dewey

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CHINA, JAPAN AND THE U. S. A.

Present-day Conditions
in the Far East
and Their Bearing on
the Washington
Conference

_by_

JOHN DEWEY

Professor of Philosophy at
Columbia University

_New Republic Pamphlet No. 1_

Published by the
REPUBLIC PUBLISHING CO., INC.
421 West Twenty-first Street
_New York City_
1921

Copyright 1921
REPUBLIC PUBLISHING CO. INC.

_Introductory Note_

_The articles following are reprinted as they were written in spite of
the fact that any picture of contemporary events is modified by
subsequent increase of knowledge and by later events. In the main,
however, the writer would still stand by what was said at the time. A
few foot notes have been inserted where the text is likely to give
rise to misapprehensions. The date of writing has been retained as a
guide to the reader._

I

On Two Sides of the Eastern Seas

It is three days' easy journey from Japan to China. It is doubtful
whether anywhere in the world another journey of the same length
brings with it such a complete change of political temper and belief.
Certainly it is greater than the alteration perceived in journeying
directly from San Francisco to Shanghai. The di