Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese John Henry. The book's hero is a young American engineer scouting out possible damsites on the great Yangtze River. From the moment he boards the 102-ft. cargo junk that is to take him upriver from Ichang, he feels irritably caught in a vise of passivity. Once under way, the American is alternately fascinated and repelled by the work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble...
...jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...