Word: jades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 50 American companies have set up small but bustling offices in Peking. The throngs of arriving American businessmen, intermingling with the flood of foreign tourists, have made hotel rooms in Peking as scarce, and as expensive, as old jade. If any delegations arrive without confirmed space, they sometimes have to wait for hours while their hosts dispatch messengers to various hotels to snap up rooms as they become vacant. In the coffee shop of the Peking Hotel, the only such Western-style watering hole in town, businessmen often gather to chew over deals in progress and grouse about prices...
...Jade Emperor appeals for help to the Buddha, who sends 18 demons to put an end to all the monkeyshines. The Monkey King (Li Yuanchun) meets them all and, in pantomime scenes worthy of Chaplin and Keaton, sends them tumbling. He takes one demon's weapon and twirls it on one finger, like a gyroscope; he grabs another one and flicks it away with his heel. No one in heaven or earth can touch this hilarious spirit of riot and disorder, and peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny...
Less exciting, but no less exotic is a more static number, The Jade Bracelet...
...circa 1300 B.C.), which was unearthed at Anyang only four years ago. A formidable woman, Fu Hao was the consort of the Emperor Wu Ding; on occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb contained 200 bronze vessels, some 600 sculptures and ritual objects of jade and stone. Most charming among the bronzes is a pitcher in the shape of an owl; among the jades is a stylized crested bird with a sweeping tail that any art deco designer could be proud...
Wall Street disdains them as "penny" stocks, but some nervy investors are making big profits on bargain-basement high-flyers with names like Jade Petroleum and Oiltech. A share of Jade has jumped from 30? to $1.75 in six months, while Oiltech soared in two years from a dime to $2.50. These inflated pennies are coming from mile-high Denver, now the haven of the national over-the-counter market. In the past 15 months, more than 100 companies there have filed to go public or launched public equity offerings totaling an estimated $200 million...