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...crisis is one that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...
Floating Court. One Filipino who wanted no part of Ted Lewin's doings was the late President Ramon Magsaysay. After taking office, Magsaysay tabbed Lewin "an undesirable alien," barred him from re-entering the country...
...either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually to be hobbled. He ordered some 80,000 rural "alien" businessmen, worth $65 million, to move into the cities or out of Indonesia by the end of the year...
...rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment of the human form was alien to Modigliani's romantic, and poetic temperament...
...have been strong enough to absorb it, Old Australians are developing a new tolerance and a new national assurance. For whatever the oddity of their new neighbors, the Old Australians count on them to help their nation survive as a Caucasian island on the edge of a vast and alien Asian continent...