Word: ricksha
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Another American in the shop finally coaxed the sailor out by offering to take his picture. There was a ricksha outside and the drunken sailor climbed in, posing. "The guys on East 136th Street'11 get a kick out of seeing this," he said. A crowd of Chinese watched while his ricksha rolled away...
...petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded bus, tram, taxi and ricksha drivers to join them, forced shops to close down. They put up road blocks, set afire British and U.S. military vehicles, stoned Tommies and G.I.s, tossed bricks and a hand grenade into the Thanksgiving dance of the American Officers' Club at Karnani Estates. Adding to the city's chaos was a municipal workers' strike (for more wages) which threatened the water supply...
...political cymbals arid the thunderous tinkle of gold coins. The outward aspect has been little changed. You still see striking contrasts of native houses and vast modern apartment buildings. People swarm in the streets and traffic is a surging, endless stream of fatalistic pedestrians, caracoling bicycles, shoals of rickshas and fleets of pedicabs, which are a weird but surprisingly efficient combination of ricksha and bicycle...
Thoughts of Home. China's little people, who had borne the bitter burden of resistance, heard the surrender news with heart-singing happiness. Yet it was hard to believe after so many dark years. A ricksha coolie spelled out the tidings before one of Chungking's wet wall newspapers, then mumbled, "Japan is defeated. Can we go home now?" In the streets, markets, tea houses, Government corridors the refrain echoed and re-echoed: "Japan is defeated. Can we go home...