“There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.” Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum […]

A 240t SWL crane is used to move the cavallettos from hold to hold when discharging to the barge fleet.

Mr Lee descended on Penghu, one of the Pescadores, with a population of 90,000, in the afternoon, immediately after military jets had buzzed the airstrip to ensure his safety. Penghu lies in the middle of the Taiwan Strait. Addressing a large rally, he compared himself to the native goddess Matsu, who gave her life for others. Your President should love and protect the people like her, he said. Matsu will not abandon Penghu, and I will not either.

The more serious non-Sinological specialists, intelligent readers, etc. will have on their bookshelves copies of Cheng Te-k'un's Archaeology of China series, Chang Kwang-chih's The Archaeology of China (1st - 3rd editions), Joseph Needham's multi-volume Science and Civilization in China, etc. Can one image the authors of these three valuable publications changing horses midstream, either in succeeding volume or in succeeding editions, and adopting p'in-yin?