Word: ricksha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East is West. On the head of the fabled Dr. Kung was the most modern of sun helmets, in his hand a folding fan. In these, as in everything else, he reflected China's blend of ricksha and airplane civilizations. Educated in the U.S. (A.B., Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern...
...soldier, standing ankle-deep in Chungking mud, lit a cigaret with a Chinese dollar and laughed. A patient child cut a doll from currency and its mother said nothing. A ricksha coolie, squatting beside the road, thumbed through a fat roll again & again. He waved away a customer, saying that he had enough...
...past. War is far away. Of all places in India, the hill stations are the most British. Simla, with its gingerbready shops, its dingy hotels and antiquated houses, is strangely Victorian. Time seems to have stood still since Kim contemplated the twinkling lights of Jakko, and the Phantom Ricksha made its ghostly rounds...
...afternoon performance" by 8:30. The curtains parted at 9. The cast wore false noses in an attempt to look Occidental, acted to Handel's Largo and Beethoven's Minuet in G. At 11:15 the play was only half over, but Atkinson left because "the ricksha boys hate to go over the hill in the dead of the night." His verdict: "Not yet ready for Broadway...
Manual laborers have experienced a drop in their standard of living, but a rise in relation to educated workers. Ricksha coolies live as well as clerks and teachers. War has shaken the family system by scattering families, calling youths into war work, liberating women. People banding together to fight economic misery crowd together in houses and form eating cooperatives. People eat more in restaurants because of the high cost of fuel and servants...