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...Rockaway, Long Island one summer day 19 years ago, a tipsy slattern wove into the chop suey restaurant of Fung Kwok-dong, plunked down on a table a naked boy infant, offered to sell him for $1. Fung Kwok-dong impassively handed over a dollar bill. Two years later when the mother tried to get her son back Fung Kwok-dong went to court, won legal possession. The white babe was legally adopted and given the name Fung Kwok-keung...
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...
...Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested the detention of two Chinese photographers, was rushed to a police station as a suspect and questioned for hours...
...brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
General Feng (pronounced Fung) is no longer the " Christian General " to Chinese Christians...