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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "title": "RAS-1979",
        "content_text": "40 \n\nREVS. J. SMITH AND WM. DOWNS \n\nenough, but their range was inadequate and the planes flew just above their fire and dropped bombs upon targets with impunity. It was reported, however, that one plane was shot down with an anti-aircraft gun. Of course, there was not a single British fighter in the air to oppose the Japanese. The two or three antiquated crates that were seen occasionally flying around before the war were perhaps only trainers or observation planes. On the first and second nights of hostilities the drone of planes was heard around midnight, and a few planes were evidently taking off and landing at Kai Tak. Our first reaction to this was that they might be British planes arriving from Singapore, to aid in the defense of Hong Kong, but these sporadic flights soon stopped, and we learnt later that there were the ordinary CNAC or commercial planes which were being flown away to safer havens, and at the same time taking a few important people out of the Colony. The Japanese had the air entirely to themselves, and to my observation there were never more than ten to twelve planes in action at the same time. \n\nIn comparison with former days, there was comparatively little shipping in the harbor at the outbreak of hostilities. The few ocean freighters were either scuttled or set on fire in Kowloon Bay or in Lyemoon channel, by their captains. It may be that a couple were bombed, I do not know. There was a number of small river craft anchored near Kowloon, and of course the usual ferries, harbor tugs and a considerable fleet of Chinese junks huddled together in the typhoon shelters. At about the second or the third day of the war, every small ship and tug, including river passenger boats and ferries, got into motion and began moving slowly up and down the harbor fairway. Apparently this was to avoid being hit by bombs or shells. \n\nDuring this time I watched a small tug, perhaps a navy tug, calmly set out from Kowloon to cross to Hong Kong. As it pulled away from its anchorage a train of shells began falling in its wake. However, it kept on majestically and quite unconcernedly on its way, and though the shells fell closer and closer to its stern, it reached the navy yard in safety, and then as calmly turned out into the harbor again. At the same time, a small British destroyer, the Thracian backed slowly out of its berth in the Navy Yard, turned around and headed westward out of the harbor. No shells hit it",
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        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1991",
        "page_number": 112,
        "title": "RAS-1991",
        "content_text": "92\n\npolitics, but the very appearance of the artists and events before the citizens of the host country could not but inform those citizens that the United States and China were on good terms at that moment.\n\nAlthough political leaders gave higher priority to relations in other fields, what the average citizen could directly experience was undoubtedly the cultural exchanges. Though the average American might be indifferent to the talks about the strategic cooperation with China and the Chinese might feel the purchase of American aircraft by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) was rather remote from their life, both of them could enjoy sitting in a concert hall and listening to music by musicians from the other country. Furthermore, once citizens of one country accept the culture of another and once that culture becomes a part of their life, even a very small portion of their life, they would feel uncomfortable if that part of life disappeared. Therefore, pressure for the restoration of such cultural contacts might actually be considered, at least partially, as a guarantee of continuing good relationship.\n\nArts exchanges, particularly those conducted through people-to-people contacts, are one of the best ways for citizens of different countries to understand each other. The intensive exchanges in arts in the period of 1979 and 1981 succeeded enormously in making a strong, positive image of the United States in China and vice versa, and this image functioned in maintaining a substantial number of exchanges between the two countries in the succeeding years in which domestic and bilateral developments were much less favourable to a healthy relationship in culture. To a large degree, the contacts established through arts exchanges have served as a counterweight to the isolationist tendencies within Chinese society.\n\nNonetheless, the most immediate concern in discussing the consequences of arts exchanges with the United States is probably their impact on China's cultural life. In this connection, the incoming American arts groups fulfilled the Chinese expectations for high-level cultural events and diversity. Especially in the period between 1979 and 1981, which was not too far removed from the Cultural Revolution, the dramatic increase in American cultural presence on the Chinese scene posed a sharp contrast with the monochrome culture formed in the Cultural Revolution and maintained in the few years following its conclusion, and helped in expanding cultural pluralism in China.",
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        "series_id": 26,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-2001",
        "page_number": 76,
        "title": "RAS-2001",
        "content_text": "24\n\n71. On the CDAC fund see Meredith, 486-94. Only £80,000 was made available in grants and loans for the establishment of local industry. 23 schemes were assisted, almost all for some form of food processing including canning. Minute by Cunliffe-Lister, 1 April 1935, CO1298/10.\n\n72. Memoranda by Calder, 21 June 1939, and by Sir Henry Moore (formerly governor of Sierra Leone), 19 June 1939, CO852/250/9. Minute by Sidney Caine, 28 April 1936, CO852/51/7.",
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