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        "content_text": "CAPTIVE SURGEON IN HONG KONG\n\n285\n\nAppendix \"B\"\n\nSpecimen Menus\n\nGeneral Messing\n\n1942\n\nWeek 7-13 Aug.\n\nBreakfast\n\nBread & Sugar 5 days\n\nBread Sugar Tea 2 days\n\nDinner\n\nRice Fish Yams 2 days\n\nRice Fish Sweet Potato 1 day\n\nRice Fish Vegetable 1 day\n\nRice Yams 1 day\n\nRice Vegetable, Sweet Potato 2 days\n\nTea\n\nRice Sweet Potato 3 days\n\nRice 1 day\n\nRice Date Pudding 3 days\n\n1943\n\nWeek 7-13 June\n\nBreakfast\n\nTea Bread Sugar Barley 1 day\n\nTea Bread Beans 1 day\n\nTea Bread Sugar Beans 2 days\n\nTea Bread Sugar Rice Porridge 1 day\n\nTea Bread Barley 1 day\n\nTea Bread Ground Rice 1 day\n\nDinner\n\nRice Vegetable 2 days\n\nRice Fish Vegetable 1 day\n\nRice Fish Sauce 1 day\n\nRice Cucumber 3 days\n\nTea\n\nRice Tea Fish 6 days\n\nTea Ground Rice Pudding 1 day",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1975",
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        "content_text": "286\n\nDONALD C. BOWIE\n\n1944\n\nWeek 7-13 June\n\nBreakfast\n\nTea Rice Atta 5 days\n\nTea Bran Rice 1 day\n\nTea Sugar Rice Bran 1 day\n\nTea Tea Rice Sugar Beans Marmalade 1 day\n\nTea Rice Egg Plant Peanut Butter 1 day\n\nTea Rice Beans Marmalade 1 day\n\nTea Rice Fish Stew Soy Sauce 1 day\n\nDinner\n\nRice Meat Stew Vegetable 1 day\n\nRice Fish Tea 2 days\n\nRice Vegetable Milk 1 day\n\nRice Preserved Meat Vegetable Sugar 1 day\n\nTea Rice Vegetable Peanut Butter 1 day\n\nRice Vegetable Fish Marmalade 1 day\n\nTea Rice Beans Peanut Butter Soy Powder 1 day\n\nTea Rice Vegetable Fish Cake Syrup 1 day\n\nTea Rice Beans 1 day\n\n1945\n\nWeek 7-13 June\n\nBreakfast\n\nTea Rice & Bran Porridge 4 days\n\nTea Bread Half Egg 1 day\n\nTea Bread Beans Rice Bran 2 days\n\nTea Tea Rice Curried Veg. 3 days\n\nTea Rice Vegetable\n\nDinner\n\nTea Rice Vegetable 5 days\n\nTea Rice Preserved Meat Stew 1 day\n\nTea Rice Meat & Vegetable Stew 1 day\n\nSupper (Working Staff only) Tea 4 days\n\nTea Rock Bun 1 day\n\nTea Chow Fan 1 day\n\nTea Rice Curried Veg. Half Egg 1 day\n\nTea Rice Meat & Veg. Stew 1 day\n\n1 day\n\nTea Vegetable Soup 1 day\n\nTea Cake 1 day\n\nNote: The quantities of food can be gauged from the tables in Appendix A.",
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        "content_text": "84\n\nELIZABETH L. JOHNSON\n\nor keening done at weddings and funerals. They did little, if any, embroidery, home weaving of fabrics, or sewing: this work was generally done by specialists. The main reason for this very limited development of textile arts was, in addition to the prevailing poverty of the area, the fact that all younger women were engaged in heavy labour outside the home. While most of the housework and child-care was managed by elderly women, the younger women did most, if not all, of the agricultural work, and in addition often did heavy carrying work for wages. Many of the men were away for extended periods of time, working either in the urban areas of Hong Kong or abroad; some had local businesses, and others did not work at all. As a result, in many families, women had primary responsibility for subsistence agriculture, bearing an extremely heavy burden of work. The following is the daily work schedule 25 years ago of a woman now 55 years old, a schedule which was repeated in basic outline by many other informants.\n\n“I got up at 5:00 and fed the baby\n\nthen I made a fire and boiled water and put rice porridge on to cook\n\nthen at 6:00 I went to carry water, making four trips to the well\n\nthen I went to the fields to water the vegetables\n\nI cut the vegetables and took them to market\n\nI used the money to buy food and returned home\n\nat 8:30 we had breakfast of rice porridge\n\nthen I went to the Texaco oil company to carry kerosene\n\nat 12:30 I came home for lunch\n\nI worked again from 1:00 to 5:00 carrying kerosene\n\nwhen I got home I cleaned the pig pen\n\nthen I went to work again in the fields\n\nin winter I returned home at 7:00, in summer at 8:00\n\nafter dinner I bathed the children\n\nthen I carried several loads of firewood\n\nthen I prepared food for the pigs\n\nI fed the baby and went to sleep at 11:00”\n\nThis woman had eight children. Such a daily schedule left her little time for any other pursuits. According to another woman, now 80 years old:\n\n“When I was eight or ten years old I began to cut grass and carry firewood. I went with a group of girls, never alone. I was married when I was sixteen. After my marriage I had to work.",
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        "content_text": "205\n\nend burns down multi-storey building. How? Please tell me how, when I had been trying hard with a naked flame to set light to a piece of wood?\n\nI was not in bed for long. Suddenly I found myself in the middle of the floor, heart a-pounding. About a foot above my head, on the wall, was a \"thing\" with black legs about two inches long - and it was moving! As I did not have my wife with me I had no alternative but to try and deal with it myself. Rustling up all the courage I could muster, I approached it step by step. I was happy to see that it had not moved any further. Perhaps it was also frightened of me. In fact, it could not have moved at all. In fact, it was three electric wires poking out of the wall - the site of a future reading light. The “movement” was caused by the flicker of the candle. Feeling rather like St. George having at least tried to slay the dragon but rather glad that nobody had been there to witness his attempt, I once more got back into bed.\n\nBacon hallucinations\n\nThe following day started with a welcome lie-in - breakfast at 7:30 a.m. This was a buffet of porridge, congee, hard-boiled eggs, toast, honey and coffee. I had to attribute the strong smell of sizzling bacon to the hallucinations I had suffered the previous night.\n\nThe first stop was the nearby Jampey Lhakhang, a temple dating from its first construction in 659, making it one of Bhutan's oldest, although some additions are as recent as the last century. The sun had risen and, yet very cold, the day was warming up. But there was still frost on the ground reflecting in perfect outline the intricate silhouette of the building as the sun cast its shadow. The photographers amongst us were surprised to find, on Day 5 in Bhutan, the first indication of somebody who was unwilling to be photographed. This old gentleman, on his way to his morning devotions, turned out to be the only reluctant subject on the entire trip. Perhaps he himself was a tourist, or maybe he had missed the briefing from the Bhutan Tourist Authority.\n\nHaving inspected the temple complex inside and out, we were distracted by loud and continuous shouting coming from a little way below us. A riot? Amongst these charming and friendly people? Or another invasion by the Tibetans, those charming and friendly people",
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        "content_text": "312\n\n* Li Zee-min (1950) Chinese Potpourri. Hong Kong: Oriental Publishers [He relates a local Hong Kong legend about the arrival of the young emperor escorted by Lu in what is now Kowloon, fleeing ahead of the Mongols. Li claims that the headman of the Hakka walled village of Kowloon was Tan Gong who died during the last battle with the Mongol fleet when Lu, with the emperor in his arms, jumped overboard to their deaths].\n\nCouling, Samuel (1917) Encyclopaedia Sinica. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh\n\n11 Yu Dayu is recorded as being a native of Fujian who died in 1573 having made his name as the victor in the struggle to defeat the Japanese pirates along the coast of China and in particular that of Zhejiang.\n\n12 Yang Xiuqing as one of the leading lights of the Taiping Rebellion, to whose military genius much of the early success of the movement was due. He was known as the Taiping Eastern King [Prince], and professed to be the spokesman of God. After the capture of Nanjing by the Taipings he established his palace in the yamen of the former Viceroy and lived in great state. By 1856 he had begun a campaign of political and religious intrigue to usurp the position of leader and to overthrow Hong Xiuquan, the founder. His plans were uncovered and he, his family and thousands of his supporters were slain by Wei Changhui, the Taiping Northern King.\n\n13 extracted from the Transcription of the letters written from China to Milcote, Stratford on Avon by Thomas Adkins between 1855 and 1879 by courtesy of Theo Christophers of Dorridge, West Midlands : November 1999\n\n14 Hymes, Robert P. (1986) Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Kiangsi, in Northern and Southern Sung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\n\n15 Although the name was known much earlier Mao Shan has always been the centre of a Daoist sect. [see Kita Aziya gakuho, a Japanese Journal, Vol. 2]\n\n16 Doré, Henri S.J. (1914) Recherches sur les Superstitions en China. Shanghai [Zikawei] : La Mission Catholique : Vol. XI\n\n17 Werner, E.T.C (1932) A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh",
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