Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After serving a five-year term for "threatening the security" of Communist China, the Rev. Paul J. Mackensen Jr., last missionary of the United Lutheran Church in America to remain in China, was released from a Shanghai prison. Baltimorean Mackensen said he had decided to stay in Shanghai if he could find a job there. "I learned something of the program for social changes taking place in China," he said. "Now I'd like to study what is going...
...presentation speech was delivered briefly and succintly by Mr. Fred C. Sze '18, Harvard Club of Shanghai. Midway in his speech he said, "I would not have done justice to this occasion if I should fail to tell you that the benign influence of Harvard has spread to the far shores of Cathay." He went on to say, "At one time it was even whispered in Nanking that a so-called Harvard clique was active in Chinese politics. Clique or no clique, I can assure you the fair name of Harvard was not blemished in any way, shape or manner...
HONG KONG The Lucky Girl As a top box-office draw for at least 20 of his 35 years, handsome, open-faced Chinese Movie Star Huang Ho might well be called the John Wayne of the Far East. Already a big name in Shanghai before World War II, Huang turned his back on his homeland when the Communists took over, and, as the idol of Free Chinese movie fans from Java to Malaya, went on making up to ten pictures a year in Hong Kong and Formosa, often for the princely Asian salary of $2,000 (U.S.) a picture...
...sober, serious-minded young hero on the screen, Huang was equally sober and serious in his private life. As a rising star in Shanghai, he spent his evenings studying medicine instead of going to nightclubs, and throughout his career preferred a good book to an evening on the town. He had not married. "Who," the Chinese fan magazines asked over and over again, "would be the lucky girl...
There was the day when he arrived in Shanghai, not knowing a soul, nor a word of the language: "Hardly had I climbed into a rickshaw than I saw riding in another along the Bund a Negro who looked exactly like a Harlemite. I stood up in my rickshaw and yelled. 'Hey man!' He stood up in his rickshaw and yelled, 'What ya sayin'?' We passed each other in the crowded street, and I never saw him again...