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Show HARRY A. MOYER ovemb r 22 2002 HAR: Oh yeah, I knew where it was. My first impression of China was - I £ rget what year it was- probably 1935, six, or something like that. I don't know why it was but Louise Rainer was in a movie about China. And I saw this The Good Earth was the name of it. She portrayed a Chinese peasant, and I remember that she gave birth in the field, and went right back to work! And that type of thing. That's my exposure to China, so to speak, other than the fact that after the Jap's had invaded; all that sort of stuff. So it was all new to us! The architecture, the culture, and that type of thing. And that was really, really interesting, and the people were very nice to us. They showed us around, and we had ... BEN: Who was English translators? I mean, do you have translators for who, how was the communication going on, on this level? HAR: Well, all these people were Chinese and educated and English speaking, because they were exposed to the English some how. But as I say, they were all doctors and professors and that type of thing. And then we always, we were assigned a policeman always around. Came up to us when we went into town and watched the jeep restaurants and that type of thing. We went to a complex - outside of town, we were north of town called the "Payman Gate," which is the north gate, it was a walled city, Chengtu- and on that outskirts, I guess there was an old, Buddhist type compound, and we stuck our nose in there once, and it was a big old type of farms, big buildings. And nobody bothered us, so we just nosed around. Opened up some doors ... 92 |
