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Thereafter, the dream of attaining Cathay was half-lost in the rich reality of Arctic furs, ivory, oil and blubber. Thus began the long, harrowing, and still unfinished labor of charting the frozen Arctic regions...
...Tragedy and Progress in Today's 'Cycle of Cathay'" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor Lucius C. Porter of Yenching University at 8 o'clock tonight in the Littauer Center...
From the very day that the Marines piled out of their transports into Tsingtao and heard their first "Ding hoa!" from the same irrepressible urchins that dogged GI footsteps all over Cathay, the reactionaries and a good proportion of the men themselves thought that they would never leave until the Communists were put down. The general opinion was that they were there to help the Kuomintang, not to "repatriate prisoners" as headquarters was claiming. With the comfortable feeling that whatever happened, good old Uncle Sam would never let them down, the reactionaries could be just as tough in dealing with...
...Black Rose ("feudal England . . . exotic Cathay . . . forbidden love"), by Thomas B. Costain, reached and held first place on the lists, cost 20th Century...
...Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader and his Grecian love. Author Costain's romantic actors are hardly more three-dimensional than characters...