Word: hong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulate in Hong Kong one day last week came word from Shanghai that the Chinese Communists had released two more of the U.S. citizens arrested and jailed for "espionage" during the Korean war, would soon permit them to cross into the free world. The pair, both Jesuit missionary priests from California: Charles J. McCarthy, 45, of San Francisco, and John Alexander Houle, 42, of Glendale. The freeing of the priests left six Americans still confined in Communist China, two of them condemned to life terms...
...view of Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered...
PERSONAL &ORIENTAL, By Austin Coates (260 pp.; Harper; $4), takes the reader to the Far East-Japan, Hong Kong, Burma, the Philippines, India. Author Coates, a son of the British composer-conductor Eric Coates and a colonial official in the Far East, travels by emotional radar. He waits for snatches of dialogue, mystic moods, glimpsed scenes, to flash like pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair...
...though China might get the same goods anyway through Russia, the added delay and cost retarded Chinese industrialization and imposed a strain on the trans-Siberian Railroad. The British retorted that most Western goods are transshipped by sea at Gdynia, Poland, are sent in Communist bottoms to Shanghai, bypassing Hong Kong...
...woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse...