Indonesia's Liem Sioe Liong became a major developer in Fukien. His efforts are centered on Fuching, his hometown just south of Foochow. Even before Indonesia and China normalized relations in 1990, Liem was pouring money into Fuching, earmarking $89 million to build a ten-mile highway, dozens of sprawling apartment blocks, office buildings and factories, and a marble-lobbied three-star hotel.

So when he had occaſion to be ſeene, / He was but as the Cuckoe is in Iune, / Heard, not regarded: Seene, but with ſuch eie / As ſicke and blunted with communitie, / Affoord no extraordinary gaze.

Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong.

My friend Jud has outfished me in all but one or two of the hundred times we’ve gone to the ocean and bay beaches and kettle ponds on Cape Cod. By both study and exercise, he knows the culture of striped bass better than I know my own nose.