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...onetime Yangtze Hotel on Hankou Road - now called the Langham Yangtze Boutique - was built 75 years ago to cater for the city's Chinese élite. Designed by Li Pan, a popular architect of the day, it was an ostentatious project, costing 1.2 million silver dollars (or about $325 million in today's money) and featured a host of mod cons - like air-conditioning - that were then becoming standard in luxury international hotels but represented heady advances for locally financed properties. Tycoons, heirs, heiresses and film stars flocked to the Yangtze's opening. The hotel's nightclub, the Yangtze Dance...
...years ago, I was one of these culture-shocked scholars myself. At that time, the only Western choice available was McDonald's. What we would have given for the Skyways Bakery in my day! This inconspicuous caf? and deli is tucked among the Chinese restaurants and vendors lining West Hankou Street, offering classic homesickness remedies such as roast beef sandwiches and Italian ice cream sundaes...
From India, Professor Moore went to Hong Kong, China, by way of Colombo and Singapore. He was in China for over four months, during which time he travelled more than 10,000 miles within the limits of the Empire. His journeys led him as far inland as Hankou, 780 miles up the valley of the Yangtse River, and through the large province of Fukien. In following out his commission Professor Moore visited every station of the American Board in the Chinese Empire besides many more conducted by other societies, British and American, of all denominations...
...incomplete, but in addition to Mr. Roosevelt, other members who have consented to act are: Francis Rawle '69, of Philadelphia; Rt. Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts; Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins '73, of Philadelphia; I. T. Burr '79, of Boston; Rt. Rev. L. H. Roots '91, Bishop of Hankou, China; J. A. Stillman '96, of New York, and G. E. Huggins '01, of New York...
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