In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood

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This next image has been very heavily processed - I have massively increased the saturation to highlight the difference between the reddish-pink stones glowing in the light of the rising Sun and the more neutral gray colour where the shadow lies. This is not simply an area of the stone that's not facing the Sun (because it is facing the Sun), as you'll see later. Japanese army: barred Chinese industrialists from their plants, 31; bought up military materials in Shanghai, 92; Central China Area Army, 158, 159–61, 183; and the Great Way Government, 157, 158, 176–77, 183; and local administration, 177; North China Area Army, 158–59, 160; rivalry with Japanese navy, 183; Special Service Section, 33; taxation by, 27n36 In the Shadow of the Rising Sun - Shanghai under Japanese Occupation - Edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh Tianjin: British concession, 229, 236, 251; French concession, 264; mentioned, 234; offices of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 70

In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War

Miscellany Monthly: promotion of women writers, 340–41, 340n27, 342n32; roundtable talks in, 342, 342n32; special issues of, 341–42, 341n29 Kapuściński first went to Africa in 1957 and, over the next forty years, returned whenever he could. dyeing industry: destroyed plants, 22, 23; economic recovery in, 27, 28; growth in, 29n51; index of industrial production, 28; in New Asia Enterprise Group, 68; smuggling in, 129, 131

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labor: CC Clique and, 210, 220, 220–21n27, 222, 226; communists and, 212, 215, 219, 219n25; Du Yuesheng and, 190; Japanese and, 215–18, 236; native-place associations and, 123, 222, 223, 226, 227; unions, 217, 220–21, 220n26; and Wang Jingwei regime, 9, 123, 189, 220–22. See also Shanghai General Labor Union; strikes; workers Wang Jingwei: convened “Sixth National Congress of the Guomindang,” 189; and crime in the International Settlement, 117; draft treaty with the Japanese, 195–96; and labor, 211, 219–20, 222, 224, 227, 228; peace movement of, 188, 206; protests by Shanghai industrialists to, 40n110; secret police of, 219n25, 223; special service organization of, 195 The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, we can say “Africa”. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.” a. As the sun peaks over a plateau and hits the tree, classify the angle the shadow of the tree makes with the ground. Yet memories of camaraderie also live on within the book. Inmates of the camp, for example, held clandestine meetings, where they worked on sewing a quilt - the ‘Changi Quilt’ as it is now known and displayed in the Imperial War Museum in London, as an emblem of courage and faith. As Olga says, “We always felt the end of the war would come, we lived for it, from month to month and tried never to lose hope.”

This is therefore not a book about Africa, but rather about some people from there –about encounters with them, and time spent together.’ puppet government. See collaborators; Great Way Government; Number 76 Jessfield Road; Reformed Government; Wang Jingwei regime advertising: false, 291; medical, 83–84, 291, 291n54; radio, 11, 280, 282, 290–91; in Shanghai funü, 306 New Asia Pharmaceutical Company (Xinya zhiyao chang): advertising department of, 83; Beijing branch, 72; capital and sales revenue, 69; Chongqing branch, 70, 73; distribution network of, 73, 74, 77–79; financing of, 73–75; identified with Chinese values, 84; inspection teams, 79; left in hands of Gu Kemin, 71; medicine-making factories of, 70, 77; popularization of science at, 75; promotional publications of, 79–83; owned Healthy Home Monthly, 335–36; records of, 68; recruitment at, 77; research scientists at, 75–77; sales organization of, 78–79; wartime expansion of, 70, 73

In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a - WHSmith

The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. Her family had not been part of the privileged ‘Raffles Hotel set’, with a big house and servants. Her father worked in construction, building roads and hospitals. Olga and her siblings grew up in Johor Bahru, a diverse part of Malaya just across the causeway from Singapore, amongst children of all faiths and cultures, without a thought to race or class. It was a very happy upbringing.

and oppression. Olga and her friends bravely raided the vegetable plot; "dodging the searchlights" and sometimes enduring severe punishments. She stood alongside the other women and children through the ordeal of Tenko in the blazing sun. They were used as slave labour. Halfway through their captivity, Olga's ten-year-old brother William was put into the men's camp, where he suffered terribly cruelty that scarred him for life. At any rate, according to the witch beliefs the inner “horseshoe” of stones at Stonehenge represents the womb, and what should be watched for at sunrise at the Summer Solstice, the longest day, is the shadow of the Hele Stone which enters this “womb” as the sun rises and fecundates it for the coming year.”