Fang

[Richard Fiero]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
>. . .
>Interestingly the KMT was a major player in opium distribution which
>after after retreating to Taiwan was shifted from Sichuan &Yunnan to
>Burma where they had a stronghold from fighting Japan In Burma. This
  . . .
I think we know that the Kuomintang was fascist, killed 10M people 
and split to Taiwan with the treasury. Eisenhower referred to Chiang 
Kai-shek as "cash-my-check." The evidence supporting the assertions 
in the indicated post is entirely missing. P has pulled this Chinese 
trick a couple three times.
Once in AtD pg 336-339 in Dally's White Slavery acting job. Pg 338 
"'Mock Duck's boys,' Katie whispered. 'The real article. Not like the 
play-actors you'll be playing with.'"
This may have been inspired by Herbert Asbury's "Barbary Coast" (1933 
Garden City Publishing) which is essential reading for AtD if one 
doesn't know that a "deadfall" is an establishment where drinking and 
gambling take place.
"Barbary Coast" about San Francisco's Chinatown 1875-1910, pg 166: 
"Many of the places where opium was smoked, or was supposed to be 
smoked, were fakes, tourist-shockers conducted by the professional 
guides to the quarter, who were licensed by the city and were 
organized as the Chinatown Guides Association.  These abodes of 
synthetic sin were invariably in dank and dreary cellars, dangerous 
underground passages.  In many of these dimly lighted ways 
evil-looking Chinamen, in the employ of the guides, slunk back and 
forth, carrying knives and hatchets and providing atmosphere and 
local color. . . . This fancy persisted until the district was 
destroyed in 1906 [earthquake].  While it lay in ruins, the whole 
area was carefully explored and mapped. Not a single underground 
passage was discovered, and few cellars larger or deeper than are 
commonly found under dwellings and business houses."