Word: mainlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabled fleshpots of Asia-Saigon, Bangkok, Shanghai-are vanishing before the stern puritanism of new nationalistic leaders. A sordid exception was tiny Kowloon City, a kind of Asian casbah six acres in size on the tip of the mainland opposite Hong Kong...
...roaring illegal activities spilled over too flagrantly onto the island itself some two miles away, have the British tried-not too successfully-to enforce the law there. In 1947 the British tried to clear out thousands of Kowloon squatters, but the Nationalist Chinese then ruling the mainland disputed British authority, correctly pointing out that the original lease provided for Chinese administration of Kowloon City. To reinforce their complaints Chinese demonstrators burned down the British consulate in Canton...
...Mainland China was having its own troubles with the elements. Peking reported that Honan province was suffering a cruel drought, while at the same time severe rains have flooded much of the Peking area in what the People's Daily calls "a disaster without precedent for some hundred years." Then, added the Chinese, swarms of locusts had moved into Honan, Shantung and Kiangsu provinces, stripping leaves from crops on thousands of acres of farmland...
...thriving, surreptitious trade in ancient objets d'art. It does so through an organization called the Peking Arts and Crafts Co., which commands high prices for bronzes and porcelain slipped out to selected dealers in Hong Kong and Europe. Included last week in the latest selection of mainland art wares showing up in Hong Kong shops was a sizable portion of loot from Tibet. For $50 and up, customers could choose from dozens of gilded bronze temple statues of Buddha, silver Tibetan chalices and ornately carved coral bracelets. Many were the kind of things Tibetans use in daily life...
...born farm boy, Oren Long progressed from a one-room schoolhouse in Earlton to Tennessee's Johnson Bible College (Disciples of Christ) and the University of Michigan. He sailed to Hilo on Big Island in 1917 to become a social worker. Five years later he returned to the mainland to earn his second master's degree, in education at Columbia's Teachers College, then hurried back to the territory. For the next 22 years Long served ably in Hawaii's educational system, rose from high school principal to superintendent of the territorial public-school system, delivered...