When a famous American writer accepts a quest from a Czech emigrant to bring him back unique Yiddish manuscripts, he accepts not only a dangerous journey to Prague, where he is watched at ev.
The occupation of parts of China was especially brutal.
Subsequently, the Chinese troop concentration and the Japanese initial strategy of maintaining a defensive posture in the Shanghai area resulted in stalemated positional warfare.
Far from being a symbol of the opportunity of better access to more information for everyone, there was something about Google that seemed to strike many have-nots as further encroachment of a Brave New World that only a tiny handful of Chinese haves can comprehend, let alone enjoy.