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

Who Are the Chinese?

• 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?

China and the West

• Superior China
• The Opium War and the Superior West
• The Open Door Held China Together

The Chinese Revolution

• The First Revolution Got Rid of the Manchus
• The Second Revolution United China
• Preparing for the Storm

The War in China

• The War Began on Manchuria
• The Sian Kidnaping
• The “China Incident”
• Trading Space for Time
• Magnetic Warfare and Guerilla Fighting
• After Pearl Harbor

Today and Tomorrow

• Is China a Democracy?
• Going to School in Wartime
• Industrial Cooperatives
• Modern Chinese Women
• But China Is Not Yet Modernized
• After the War

To the Leader

• Who Are the Chinese?
• The Oldest Civilization—Asset or Liability?
• A Miracle?
• Is China a Democracy?
• China Tomorrow

Some Suggestions for Further Reading