Word: wanchai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered and fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival and departure of U.S. ships coming off patrol duty off Viet Nam is recorded on an updated blackboard at many a bar-dancehall in its famed Wanchai district. Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore get fewer applicants-mostly those who want to avoid the sight of fellow Americans...
...Quine) is vague, and the principals are rigidly confined in miscasts. Actor Holden looks more like an aging bellboy than an artist. As for Actress Kwan, an Anglo-Chinese cutie born in Hong Kong and trained in London's Royal Ballet school, she looks more like Piccadilly than Wanchai. And the film's sentimental, sanitized conception of the Oriental prostitute as a sort of rising young calendar girl who graciously takes her turn as a U.S.O. hostess will seem a cruel jest to the undernourished minions of Asia's vast sex industry, many of them dead...
Tourists file through the garish, neon-lit Wanchai quarter-the world of Suzie Wong-dodging red rickshas and the green, double-decker tramcars. There are bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...