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21. Shantou or Swatow NEW BY ANY NAME
I HAD KNOWN Shantou, called Swatow in the local dialect, more than 40 years ago in a time of war and turmoil. Already then it was a big commercial port in eastern Guangdong (Kwangtung) province;
Author: WU TONG Year 1979 Issue 4 PDF HTML
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22. Quanzhou Town , Pagodas
BACK from his long journey to China in 1298, Marco Polo said that Quanzhou, then called Zayton, and Alexandria were the world's two biggest ports. The famous Arab historian Ibn Batuta (1304-1377)
Author: WU TONG Year 1979 Issue 5 PDF HTML
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23. Rare Find of Ancient Instruments
THE Marquis of Zeng must have liked music. At least a great many musical instruments were buried with him when he died in 433 B.C. Unearthed recently, they are a rare find in tomb excavation. There
Author: WU ZHAO Year 1979 Issue 5 PDF HTML
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24. The White-Headed Leaf Monkey
WE WERE in a subtropical forest in southern Guangxi (Kwangsi). The early morning sun light was just touching the mountain peaks. A monkey jumped onto a big flat rock. Blinking its bright round eyes,
Author: WU MINGCHUAN Year 1979 Issue 5 PDF HTML
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25. Zhangzhou, Home of the Narcissus
IN China people like to grow narcissus at home in the wintertime. It is said to be an auspicious sign if the blossoms come out just for the Spring Festival. Most of the bulbs are raised in Hubei,
Author: WU TONG Year 1979 Issue 6 PDF HTML
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26. Modernizing the Textile Indust
SHANGHAI'S hundred-year-old textile industry, whose products are known throughout the world, has raised labor productivity by 2.5 times since liberation in 1949, though the total number of spindles
Author: WU FUMIN Year 1979 Issue 6 PDF HTML
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27. Xiamen (Amoy)
XIAMEN (Amoy). a famous port city for centuries, lies on an island of the same name in a large bay on the southern coast of Fujian province. Since 1956 it has been connected with the mainland by a
Author: WU TONG Year 1979 Issue 7 PDF HTML
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28. Vignettes of a Pacific Survey
EARLY this year China participated in a worldwide atmospheric test sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to which 149 countries contributed their efforts. It was the first such
Author: WU JIN Year 1979 Issue 12 PDF HTML
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29. From Pairing to Marriage
CHINA is a multi-national country, one of whose minorities is the Naxi. It consists of 230,000 people who live in Lijiang, Weixi, Ninglang and other counties in northwestern Yunnan province. An
Author: WU ZELIN Year 1980 Issue 7 PDF HTML
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30. Prime Teas of China
THREE thousand years ago people were already cultivating, processing and drinking tea in China, where it all began and where guests are still served tea as soon as they arrive. "Tea on a winter's
Author: WU JUENONG Year 1980 Issue 8 PDF HTML