Word: harboring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sugarloaf islands huddles close to the China coast. As the jet airliner glides in, sunlight reflects from the rippled sea, the brown batwing sails of Chinese junks turn in the wind. The travelers look down on rocky hills with terraced fields, deeply indented coves alive with sampans, a wide harbor carrying a honking traffic of freighters, tugs, barges and ferries...
...their way to the hotel, the cab driver offers his services as guide, confidant and business agent. Climbing the broad stairs to the lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
...short ride by Star ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth...
Amusing Choice. The island selected by the British plenipotentiary, Sir Henry Pottinger, was Hong Kong (Fragrant Harbor). It was so barren and lacking in water that even the Chinese considered it uninhabitable. Pottinger's choice aroused derision in London, where "Go to Hong Kong" became a euphemistic form of cussing among fashionable ladies. And Queen Victoria wrote a friend: "Albert is so much amused at my having got the island of Hong Kong...
Until the Communists gained control of mainland China, Peking provided the second focal point for scholarship. A center for graduate study and research was established at Yenching University, to which the Institute contributed funds for salaries, library facilities, and publications. Work continued from 1928 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at which time hundreds of the Yenching faculty and students fled to the western provinces. For a brief interlude at the end of the war, scholarly activity resumed. The Communist regime abolished the school in 1949, however, and the campus became the Liberal Arts college of the National Peking University...