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...Hard Workers. Britain's entry into the Orient brought new swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
...Orient's most thoroughly kicked political footballs, Henry Pu Yi, 53, got his freedom from the Chinese Reds after more than a decade as their "war prisoner." Last Emperor of China's Manchu dynasty, thick-spectacled Pu Yi reigned briefly as a child before losing his throne in China's 1911 republican revolution. Quarter-century later, the Japanese set him up as puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, but he again got the boot when World War II's end brought the defeat of his sponsors...
...Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West can cooperate on the plane of art. When and if Brundage's conditions are met, San Francisco, the Gateway to the Orient, will take its place, in one giant stride, among the top U.S. centers for Oriental...
...beautiful costumes, and choreography by Elizabeth Theiler, the visual aspect of the play is quite stunning. The movement is fast but controlled, and the stage business is meticulous in detail and execution. Novick is especially successful in out-doing Gilbert's spoof of English attitudes, notably those toward the Orient which did so much to produce the Far-Eastern mess of the 19th Century. The chorus, which can really sing this time, is at all times a source of delight, whether they be joining in the sentimental ballad, or kicking around an imaginary chopped-off head...
Battle of Formosa. The Orient seemed promising. Porter, an outspoken advocate of recognition of Red China, decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month...