RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d CAPTIVE SURGEON IN HONG KONG 285 Appendix "B" Specimen Menus General Messing 1942 Week 7-13 Aug. Breakfast Bread & Sugar 5 days Bread Sugar Tea 2 days Dinner Rice Fish Yams 2 days Rice Fish Sweet Potato 1 day Rice Fish Vegetable 1 day Rice Yams 1 day Rice Vegetable, Sweet Potato 2 days Tea Rice Sweet Potato 3 days Rice 1 day Rice Date Pudding 3 days 1943 Week 7-13 June Breakfast Tea Bread Sugar Barley 1 day Tea Bread Beans 1 day Tea Bread Sugar Beans 2 days Tea Bread Sugar Rice Porridge 1 day Tea Bread Barley 1 day Tea Bread Ground Rice 1 day Dinner Rice Vegetable 2 days Rice Fish Vegetable 1 day Rice Fish Sauce 1 day Rice Cucumber 3 days Tea Rice Tea Fish 6 days Tea Ground Rice Pudding 1 day ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d 286 DONALD C. BOWIE 1944 Week 7-13 June Breakfast Tea Rice Atta 5 days Tea Bran Rice 1 day Tea Sugar Rice Bran 1 day Tea Tea Rice Sugar Beans Marmalade 1 day Tea Rice Egg Plant Peanut Butter 1 day Tea Rice Beans Marmalade 1 day Tea Rice Fish Stew Soy Sauce 1 day Dinner Rice Meat Stew Vegetable 1 day Rice Fish Tea 2 days Rice Vegetable Milk 1 day Rice Preserved Meat Vegetable Sugar 1 day Tea Rice Vegetable Peanut Butter 1 day Rice Vegetable Fish Marmalade 1 day Tea Rice Beans Peanut Butter Soy Powder 1 day Tea Rice Vegetable Fish Cake Syrup 1 day Tea Rice Beans 1 day 1945 Week 7-13 June Breakfast Tea Rice & Bran Porridge 4 days Tea Bread Half Egg 1 day Tea Bread Beans Rice Bran 2 days Tea Tea Rice Curried Veg. 3 days Tea Rice Vegetable Dinner Tea Rice Vegetable 5 days Tea Rice Preserved Meat Stew 1 day Tea Rice Meat & Vegetable Stew 1 day Supper (Working Staff only) Tea 4 days Tea Rock Bun 1 day Tea Chow Fan 1 day Tea Rice Curried Veg. Half Egg 1 day Tea Rice Meat & Veg. Stew 1 day 1 day Tea Vegetable Soup 1 day Tea Cake 1 day Note: The quantities of food can be gauged from the tables in Appendix A. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q 84 ELIZABETH L. JOHNSON or 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. “I got up at 5:00 and fed the baby then I made a fire and boiled water and put rice porridge on to cook then at 6:00 I went to carry water, making four trips to the well then I went to the fields to water the vegetables I cut the vegetables and took them to market I used the money to buy food and returned home at 8:30 we had breakfast of rice porridge then I went to the Texaco oil company to carry kerosene at 12:30 I came home for lunch I worked again from 1:00 to 5:00 carrying kerosene when I got home I cleaned the pig pen then I went to work again in the fields in winter I returned home at 7:00, in summer at 8:00 after dinner I bathed the children then I carried several loads of firewood then I prepared food for the pigs I fed the baby and went to sleep at 11:00” This woman had eight children. Such a daily schedule left her little time for any other pursuits. According to another woman, now 80 years old: “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. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g 205 end 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? I 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. Bacon hallucinations The 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. The 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. Having 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 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2002 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mp4901278 312 * 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]. Couling, Samuel (1917) Encyclopaedia Sinica. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 11 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. 12 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. 13 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 14 Hymes, Robert P. (1986) Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Kiangsi, in Northern and Southern Sung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 15 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] 16 Doré, Henri S.J. (1914) Recherches sur les Superstitions en China. Shanghai [Zikawei] : La Mission Catholique : Vol. XI 17 Werner, E.T.C (1932) A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh ================================================================================