Word: expat
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...tradition was begun in 1938 by A. S. Gisbert, a Kuala Lumpur-based British expat. Inspired by paper chase clubs he had first seen in action while stationed in Malacca, Gisbert persuaded his colleagues to "hunt" with him, on foot rather than horseback. Gisbert, as the hare, would mark long, meandering trails through the brush with chalk arrows and piles of flour. The hounds or "harriers," would set off soon after, in hopes of "capturing" the hare before he finished the trail. The reward at the end of the run, whether or not the hare was caught, was cold beer...
...Fragrant Harbor has been advertised as the Great Hong Kong Expat Novel?hardly a genre fraught with competition. Fortunately, Lanchester?an Englishman raised in Hong Kong?has a familiarity with the city that extends far beyond the numbing bubble of contemporary expatriate life. He shows that almost everyone who has helped build Hong Kong over the past 50 years has been, in effect, an expat?from the Westerners with empty pockets and overflowing dreams to the mainland refugees who made the city their own. Each of the three narrators of Fragrant Harbour has vivid memories of first seeing Hong Kong...
...Hong Kong of late is no longer an expat town. The flow of eager Westerners has slowed, for better or worse, and third-generation Hong Kongers?the descendants of refugees?seem eager to shut their doors to abode seekers. Lanchester is smart enough not to predict the future of Hong Kong, but one wonders if the city's endless capacity for renewal?its greatest gift?will survive without the constant influx of new schemers, dreamers and refugees to clap fresh eyes on that bustling harbor, and breathe deep its pungent fragrance...
...amid these Soviet remnants, new buildings are emerging and old ones are undergoing renovation. The Japanese have built a six-story trade center, the Koreans have opened a cultural building and the nearby Sakhalin Center now houses the American trade office and the primary expat hangout, the Pacific CafE. The foreigners are drawn by oil and natural gas. Like California during the gold rush of the 1800s, Sakhalin has attracted the world's prospectors, each hoping to mine its bounty and, in the process, turning parts of the city into a freewheeling frontier town...
...peers for ending up in the slowest class in school. That shame extends to their parents, who have parallel problems. Terry's father (Richard Low) fears his company will be destroyed by foreign competition, while Liu Kok's father (played by Neo) loses out at work to an incompetent expat because his English is lacking. His wife (the anguished Xiang Yun) is so tormented by her son's academic failures she canes him, only to dress the wounds later in the film's most touching sequence. And then someone gets cancer...