Word: fung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...
...last week the busy bombers, dropping pyrotechnic flares to light their work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth...
After a few years the elder Fung, U. S. born, revisited his ancestral village of Keu Kong near Canton. With him went the adopted white child to be reared in China by Fung's wife, Tan See. Eight years ago Fung's savings ran out, so he returned to the U. S. and the chop suey business. But his white son remained in China...
Many times the elder Fung hinted by letter that he would like his white son to be with him but every time the boy would reply in exquisite Cantonese that he preferred to remain with his honorable mother and his cherished sister, Su Hung...
Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...