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As per tradition, hundreds gathered in front of the old Hankow Customs House building, one of the city’s more popular New Year’s Eve spots.

I weighed myself on the big scale in the Hankow Dispensary and found that I was as skinny as ever.

Sometimes in the winter when I walked past the beggars in Hankow, I would think of Peitaiho and be glad to know that it was in the same world.

“With all the trouble in Hankow,” he said, “I can’t be so far away. I’ll have to travel back and forth.”

“Well, Jean,” my father said, “you can see what war is like. If we were scheduled to leave Hankow next week, for instance, we couldn’t do it. I’m needed here.”