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Manchurian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of Manchuria or its people or their culture.





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"Manchurian" Quotes from Famous Books



... heard of this man, the promoter of the Manchurian Syndicate, and, if report spoke truly, the possessor of an influence over the young Czar which could be attributed only ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... have protested against being compelled to sell Chilian, Brazilian, Manchurian and other beef. A simple way to distinguish "other beef" from Manchurian beef is to offer it to the cat. If it eats ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various
... thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. He was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields. Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai,—the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self-sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life. Fain would we remain barbarians, ...
— The Book of Tea • Kakuzo Okakura


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