...The discussion of sex in American culture changed between World War II and the mid-1960s. Historians and observers at the time documented intensified attention to sexual issues in civic culture as sexuality became viewed as central to personal identity, as knowable, and as accessible to measurement...

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...Western observers also witnessed the devastation in North China firsthand. Vivid descriptions of the famine written by Anglo-American missionary relief workers stationed in Shanxi and other stricken provinces were published in the Shanghai-based North China Herald as well...

...This chapter examines the motivation for popular nationalism in China. It explains that Chinese and Western observers of Chinese nationalism have long disagreed over who the agents of Chinese nationalism are. Chinese pundits ascribe agency to the masses, while Westerners point to the elites...