Word: ricksha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chest of the West and hope to find there the faint heart of a new Munich. They now demand a voice in the affairs of the Europe that, a generation ago, was sure that it ordered the affairs of China as surely as it ordered about its ricksha boys...
TIME'S Hong Kong driver is Chang Yu-cheng, 35, who began learning auto mechanics as an apprentice in Shanghai at the age of 15. He considers Hong Kong, with its well-enforced traffic regulations, a much easier place to drive in than Shanghai, with its ped-icab-ricksha-clogged streets. On the other hand, Tokyo traffic, reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these...
...lush land where 250,000 Britons rule over 2,000,000 Zulus and 300,000 Indians. Its largest city, Durban (pop. 400,365), has Miami-size beach hotels, slums worse than Manhattan's, and a shopping center that resembles London's West End, except for Zulu ricksha boys in painted cowhorns and feathers...
Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...