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Exotic British Crown Colony Tiny blip on the south China coast Three dozen years on the lease Before Vietnam Mao's Cultural Revolution nd the major building boom. Merchant ships of all flags In Victoria Harbour Where Star Ferries continually steam Ten cents Hong Kong, 1½ US Photographs of drowned bodies On the landings. Uniformed officers in shorts Direct traffic to the left On Nathan, Gloucester, and Queens Rolls-Royces and rickshaws nd double-deck trams Bicycles piled high with goods. Floating restaurants and shops Children begging on shore Cluttered open-air markets Laundry fluttering above Live fowl hanging from poles Caged puppies trembling in fear. Lovely women in cheongsams Businessmen in dark suits Young sailors on leave Chinese workers in droves n occasional neck mass Postnasal cancer with mets?a British English in shops Where bargains abound Stereos, cameras, and pearls Illicit ivory and gems Suits and shoes in two days Custom shirts while you wait. Boat people of Aberdeen On their sampans and junks Refugee shacks in the hills Outsiders beware— The Wan Chai rooftops nd Walled City of Kowloon. In the New Territories Far from the bustle Small villages and farms Water buffalo in fields nd China ominously looms Beyond the barbed wire.
a Cantonese people have a high incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which often presents with cervical metastases.
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