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As the stricken Carnival Triumph is towed back to port in Mobile, Ala., the 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members stranded aboard are understandably restless. They've been stuck on board the ship since Sunday morning, when a fire in the ship's engine room knocked out its propulsion system, leaving it stranded in the Gulf of Mexico.
Reports of the passengers' ordeal over the ensuing four days have been harrowing. According to text messages sent to relatives and interviews with people on board, the smell of rotting food abounds. Toilets are backed up, forcing many to use red biohazard bags to go to the bathroom. With the air-conditioning system offline, the staterooms are too hot to sleep in, and some passengers have reportedly moved their mattresses to the deck. According to a statement released by Carnival, only one dining room has reliable power for serving hot coffee and, sporadically, hot food.
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But possibly the worst part about the past week for the passengers of the Carnival Triumph is that there's been no escape. So far, only two passengers have been moved off the ship: Rachel Alderete, 54, who was in desperate need of emergency kidney dialysis, was transported to the Triumph's sister ship, the Carnival Legend, on Tuesday to be taken to Texas for treatment. The following day, a second passenger was taken off the ship because of a pre-existing medical condition, Carnival spokeswoman Joyce Oliva tells TIME. Both were moved to other Carnival ships that had diverted their courses in order to assist with the rescue mission.
However, these emergency measures underscore a question on the minds of many observers: Why not take all the passengers off the stricken Carnival Triumph?
It turns out that it's not that simple. Just moving a single passenger is a delicate dance, according to Lieutenant Lily Zepeda, public-affairs officer for the U.S. Coast Guard District 8, which is coordinating the response to the cruise-ship crisis from its New Orleans–based office. The Coast Guard cutter Vigorous, a 210-ft. (64 m) vessel that was called on to escort the cruise ship just hours after it was disabled, launched a small boat to courier Alderete from the Triumph to the Legend. "Our small boat would come alongside one of the cruise ships, take the passenger and then go alongside the other cruise ship and drop the passenger off," Zepeda explains to TIME.
The whole process can take 15 minutes to an hour for just one person, making it an understandably arduous task to move all 4,200 people on board. (One passenger wasn't even able to make the trip: according to the New York Times, Alderete's sister was supposed to accompany her, but choppy waters prevented her departure.) And that's assuming everyone is capable of the move. Among the passengers are likely many "that are really young, really old. We don't know the physical fitness of everyone," says Zepeda. All told, offloading the passengers with the help of the Vigorous could have taken longer than towing the ship back to shore.
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Still, it couldn't have been easy for the passengers on board the Triumph to watch as three working Carnival cruise liners stopped by to drop off hot prepared meals and nonperishable food. Unfortunately, none of the ships in the area had enough cabins to take on the Triumph's 3,143 guests. "If it wasn't a life-threatening medical emergency, we probably wouldn't have gotten involved" in transferring passengers in the first place, Zepeda says.
Despite the discomfort of the Triumph's five-day saga — by the end of which the ship's sewage system had backed up and breakfast menus occasionally consisted of cold waffles and candy, according to the New York Times — conditions never got dire enough to prompt an evacuation. Lifeboats are deployed only in the case of emergency, and both Carnival and the Coast Guard agree that this situation didn't fit the bill. "We evaluated a wide range of options, but the safest and most expedient solution was towing the ship back to port," says Oliva. And despite its shortcomings, the Triumph "is still a stable and safe platform," according to Zepeda. "Unfortunately, despite the discomfort, it's probably the safest place for them to be, rather than trying to transfer them back and forth via another method."
Three tugboats have been slowly pulling the cruise ship back to port — a mission that ended up taking five days and was hampered Thursday afternoon just miles offshore by a broken tow line. For the passengers on board the Carnival Triumph, the end of the voyage can't come soon enough.


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Plato and Aristotle
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Ban Zhao
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Ban Gu
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Alexander Dunlop
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Herbert Feith
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Hanna Petros
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Anagarika Dharmapala
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Martin Wickramasinghe
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Du Fu
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Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, known as Hamka (kampung Molek Sungai Batang Agam Regency, West Sumatra February 17, 1908 - Jakarta July 24, 1981) was a prominent Indonesian author, ulema and politician. Other than his activities in the religious and political sectors, Hamka was also a journalist, a writer, and a publisher. Since the 1920s, Hamka was working as the journalist of several newspaper such as Pelita Andalas, Seruan Islam, Bintang Islam and Seruan Muhammadiyah.
Huang Yuanyong
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Kang Youwei
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Liang Qichao
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Mohammad Natsir
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Shao Young
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John Clark Marshman
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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
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Judith Gautier
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Carter Godwin Woodson
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Shumei Okawa
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Baron Tsuda Mamichi
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Vincent Gordon Harding (born July 25, 1931) is an African American historian and a scholar of religion and society. An activist as well, he is best known for his work with and writings about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Writings Chapter 1 Widening the Circle: Experiments in Christian Discipleship African-American Christianity: Essays in History Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero ., etc
Hirata Atsutane
Hirata Atsutane was a Japanese scholar, conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku (nativist) studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shinto religion. His literary name was Ibukinoya. Little is known of his early life, but Hirata was a student of the Neo-Confucianism of Yamazaki Ansai (1619-1682) in Edo. He later turned towards Daoism as found in the works of the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, and towards Shinto as per the works of Motoori Norinaga, founder of the kokugaku movement.
Hitoshi Igarashi
Hitoshi Igarashi was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He completed his doctoral programme in Islamic art at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and was research fellow at the Royal Academy of Iran until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of "the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who are aware of its content", he was stabbed to death repeatedly in the face and arms by an unknown assailant on July 11, 1991 in his office at the University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki,[2] where he was an associate professor.
Zawgyi (12 April 1907 - 26 September 1990), born in Pyapon, Irrawaddy Division, real name U Thein Han , was a distinguished and leading Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic. He was one of the leaders of the Hkit san (Testing the Times) movement in Burmese literature searching for a new style and content before the Second World War,[1] along with Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry,Padauk pan (Padauk flower), was published in Hantha Kyemon pamphlet
John W. Dower
John W. Dower (born 21 June 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island ) is an American author and historian. Dower was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire, A Journey from Hiroshima, and was a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, sitting on the editorial board of its journal with Noam Chomsky, and Herbert Bix The Bombed: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Memory, Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (Spring 1995) Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999; W. W. Norton) Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese experience, 1878-1954.
John Evelyn
John Evelyn (31 October 1620 - 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time (he witnessed the deaths of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666). Over the years, Evelyn's Diary has been over-shadowed by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life.[1] Evelyn and Pepys corresponded frequently and much of this correspondence has been preserved.
Kunio Yanagita
Kunio Yanagita as a Japanese scholar who is often known as the father of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku. He depicted some facets of Japanese society by analyzing the famous folk tale Momotaro. His methodology was followed by many ethnologists and anthropologists. Yanagita revealed that the distribution of dialects for the word snail forms concentric circles on the Japanese archipelago.
David M. Lampton (born 1946) is George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is Director of China Studies at SAIS. He is Former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the National Bureau of Asian Research. On June 17, 2010 The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars awarded Lampton the inaugural Scalapino Prize, an award established in honor of renowned Asia scholar Robert A. Scalapino.
Masao Maruyama
Masao Maruyama (Maruyama Masao, March 22, 1914 - August 15, 1996) was a leading Japanese political scientist and political theorist. His expertise lay in the history of Japanese political thought, to which he made major contributions. The major work of his retirement years was a three-volume commentary on Fukuzawa Yukichi's Fukuzawa's principal work Bunmeiron no Gairyaku, based on a lengthy seminar he conducted with a small working group. This was published in 1986, as Reading 'An Outline of a Theory of Civilisation',by Iwanami Shoten. Besides, he contributed several more noteworthy as well as controversial works on Japanese culture or the process of translation in modern Japan.
Devin deweese
Devin Deweese is a professor of Islamic and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his PhD in 1985 at Indiana University, and since then has continued to do research on Central Asian Islam, particularly Sufism and its political and social dimensions. He has published major studies of Central Asian religion and history using Persian, Arabic and Turkic manuscript sources he has painstakingly accumulated from collections all over the world. Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 Series "Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions", 638 pp. "Khojagani Origins and the Critique of Sufism: The Rehtoric of Communal Uniqueness in the Manaqib of Khoja 'Ali 'Azizan Ramitani," in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. Frederick De Jong and Bernd Radtke (Leiden: E.J. Brell, 1999) 492-519.
Maung Htin Aung
Maung Htin Aung was an important author and scholar of Burmese history and Burmese culture. Oxford and Cambridge educated Htin Aung wrote several books on Burmese history and culture in both Burmese and English. Htin Aung authored many important books on Myanmar, under the pen name of Maung Htin Aung. His books are widely used in the study of the comparatively under-documented history and culture of Myanmar.
Min Thu Wun
Min Thu Wun (10 February 1909 - 15 August 2004) was a Mon - Burmese poet, writer and scholar who helped launch a new age literary movement called Hkit san (Testing the Times) in Burma. Nursery Songs for Maung Khway - 13 songs in Burmese with music and English translations by Gordon H Luce of 60 years ago were reprinted in 2002. Pan hnin pinzi - The Tree Trunk and the Blooms (1965)
Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh (or Mohammed 'Abduh) (Nile Delta, 1849 - Alexandria, July 11, 1905) was an Egyptian jurist and religious scholar. A recent book titled "Islam and Liberty" regarded Muhammad Abduh as the founder of the so-called Neo-Mutazilism. Muhammad Abduh argued that Muslims could not simply rely on the interpretations of texts provided by medieval clerics, they needed to use reason to keep up with changing times (1897), Risalat al-taw?id ("Theology of unity;" first edition) (1903), Tafsir Surat al-'Asr, Cairo. (1904), Tafsir juz' 'Amma, al-Matb. al-Amiriyya, Cairo. (1927), Tafsir Manar, 12 volumes (1944), Muhammad Abduh. Essai sur ses idées philosophiques et religieuses, Cairo>
Nguyen Khuyen
Nguyen Khuyen was a famous Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet and teacher living in 19th century. The more disadvantages he met in his life, the more talented he became in his writing. He was the hyphen between classical literature and modern literature. He was both a prominent lyric poet and an outstanding satirical poet.
Nguyen Thuong Hien
Nguyen Thuong Hien was a Vietnamese scholar-gentry anti-colonial revolutionary activist who advocated independence from French colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Boi Chau and Phan Chu Trinh and was regarded as the most prominent northerner of his generation of scholar-gentry activists. Hien's first government position was an appointment in the historical Bureau, which possibly gave him access to more Chinese works about anti-colonialism. He was later appointed as the education commisoner (doc hoc) of Ninh Binh Province, before being transferred ot the corresponding position in Nam Dinh Province.
Paul Mus
Paul Mus (1902 - 1969) was a French author and scholar. His studies focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian cultures. He was born in Bourges to an academic family, and grew up in northern Vietnam (Tonkin). He volunteered for the Free French Forces during World War II in Africa. He trained with British commandos in Ceylon in 1944-1945. He has written widely on Buddhism and comparative linguistics. He was deeply affected by the death of his son Émile Mus in 1961 during the Algerian War.
Pe Maung Tin
Pe Maung Tin was a scholar of Pali and Buddhism and educator in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Born an Anglican and named Maung Tin at Pauktaw, Insein Township, Rangoon, he was the fifth child of U Pe and Daw Myaing. Liang passed the Xiucai degree provincial examination at the age of 11. In 1884, he undertook the arduous task of studying for the traditional governmental exams. Liang Qichao was the "most influential turn-of-the-century scholar-journalist," according to Levenson. Liang showed that newspapers and magazines could serve as an effective medium for communicating political ideas.
Stephen Little
Stephen Little (born 1954) is an American Asian art scholar, museum administrator and artist. Dr. Little's father was a linguist and cultural attaché for the government of the United States. Stephen was raised in Indonesia, Cambodia, Burma, and Turkey, not living in the United States until age 11. He initially studied nuclear physics, but changed his major to Chinese art.[2] He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1975, an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987. Dr. Little has painted all his adult life. He currently works in a minimalist style strongly influenced by East Asian ink and wash painting.
Michio Takeyama
Michio Takeyama was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar of German literature, active in Showa period Japan. On returning home in 1932, Takeyama taught German language as a professor at First Higher School, and also translated works of German literature into Japanese. Among the works he translated were Goethe's An Anthology, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer.
Tran Trong Kim
Tran Trong Kim was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a puppet state created by Imperial Japan in 1945. This came after Japan had seized direct control of Vietnam from the French colonial forces during the Second World War.
Watanabe Kazan
Watanabe Kazan was a Japanese painter, scholar and statesman member of the samurai class. He was the first Japanese artist to paint realistic portraits of his subjects using the effects of shading which he learned from European paintings. On the one hand, he was a traditionalist Confucian, who believed in filial piety and loyalty to his daimyo, and on the other he was enthusiastic about Western ideas regarding science and politics. He wrote two private essays which were interpreted as being critical of the Shogunate's defense of Tokyo Bay and promoting Western ideas
Wyndham Knatchbull
Wyndham Knatchbull (1795 or 1796 - 5 April 1868) was a British clergyman and academic who was Laudian Professor of Arabic from 1823 until 1840. Knatchbull, who was one of the sons of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating there on 7 November 1804 at the age of 18, and obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1808. He was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford in 1809, holding this position until 1824. He also obtained the further degrees of Master of Arts (1812), Bachelor of Divinity (1820) and Doctor of Divinity (1821). He was appointed Laudian Professor of Arabic in 1823, a post he retained until 1840.
Yamazaki Ansai
Yamazaki Ansai was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian ideas with Shinto to create Suika Shinto. Born in Kyoto on January 24, 1619, Yamazaki Ansai was the son of a former ronin-turned-doctor and the last of four children. In his youth, he was strongly influenced by both his mother and grandmother. While his mother "urged him to develop a noble heart worthy of a samura's son,"[1] his grandmother supported him in his study of the Chinese language. After his first publication, Ansai spent the remaining thirty-five years of his life writing, publishing, editing, annotating, and punctuating Confucian and Shinto texts (that accumulated to over two thousand pages)
Herbert P. Bix
Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism. He has taught at many universities and is a professor of history and sociology at Binghamton University. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
William Gifford Palgrave
William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888) was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. and Elizabeth Turner. He was educated at the Charterhouse School, then occupying its original site near Smithfield, and under the head-mastership of Dr. Saunders, afterwards Dean of Peterborough. Among other honours he won the school gold medal for classical verse, and proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship, graduating First Class Lit. Hum., Second Class Math., 1846. (1954-1961), Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Hakim al-Mustahir bi Tafsir al-Manar, 12 vols. with indices, Cairo.
Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer
Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (5 July 1856 - 11 May 1887) was a Scottish missionary and Arabic scholar, the third son of the 8th Earl of Kintore. Keith-Falconer was born in Edinburgh. After passing through Harrow School and the University of Cambridge, he moved into evangelistic work in London. In 1886 he was appointed Arabic professor at Cambridge, but his career was cut short near Aden while in missionary work. He translated the Fables of Bidpai. He was an athlete, a champion cyclist and is described as a world cycling champion in 1878. Keith-Falconer taught himself Hebrew at Harrow and then moved on to other Semitic languages. At Cambridge he studied for a Semitic languages tripos, studying Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac. Hebrew required a deep knowledge of the Hebrew Bible. He passed.
Cao Xuan Duc
Cao Xuan Duc was a scholar, historian-mandarin, and court adviser in the Nguyn Dynasty, Vietnam. Cao Xuan Duc made significant contribution in maintaining Vietnamese culture and literature in 19th and 20th century. He spent many years writing, collecting, copying, re-writing and preserving valuable books including: He was later vilified by Cuong's group and demoted to a lowly local post in Hoang Xa outside of Hanoi. A relief of Cao Xuan Dc was sculptured on a wall in a cave in this local region to commemorate his righteousness.
Hoang Van Chí
Hoang Van Chí was one of the first Vietnamese political writers, a prominent intellectual who was an opponent of colonialism and later of communism in Vietnam. His book, From Colonialism to Communism, was translated into more than 15 languages. From Colonialism to Communism: A Case Study of North Vietnam describes North Vietnam from 1940-55, during the transition from the French colonial rule to communism. It also documents The Land Reform in Vietnam in 1954. From 1960-62, Hoàng wrote From Colonialism to Communism, an account of events in Vietnam from 1940s to 1955, especially The Land Reform in Vietnam. The book was published first in 1962, at the same time in New York, London, and New Delhi.
Nguyen Trai
Nguyen Trai was an illustrious Confucian scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master tactician. He was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or mythical deeds in his designated capacity as a close friend and principal advisor , Vietnam's hero-king, who fought to free the country from Chinese rule.
Phan Khoi
Phan Khoi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the Communist regime, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam. Phan Khoi learned Chinese characters from a young age and was very well read. He read many progressive writings and developed a belief in civil rights and a new society. In 1906, he joined the Progressive Movement (Duy Tan) led by Phan Chu Trinh (1872-1926), Huynh Thuc Khang (1876-1947) and Tran Quy Cap (1870-1906). Phan Khoi moved to Hanoi to learn French ). Phan Khoi wrote under the pen name Chuong Dân, and was very well known for his new, revolutionary and controversial ideas.
Nguyen Quyen
Nguyen Quyen was a Vietnamese scholar-gentry anti-colonial revolutionary activist who advocated independence from French colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Boi Chau and Phan Chu Trinh, and one of Tonkin Free School's (Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc) founders.] Quyen was born in Thung Trì (or Ðìa Village), Thung Mão, Thun Thành, Bac Ninh Province. Quyen was not the first choice for the role. The regional authority in the area was Vi Van Ly, a seventy year old descendant of a Chinese immigrant family that had inherited authority in the area due to its bestowal to them by the Nguyn Dynasty. The more I read the more I become aware that he things we studied, our examination system, were wrong - indeed the real reasons for our having lost our country. From that point on I was determined to seize upon our country's literature and on modern learning to awaken our citizenry.
Tran Cao Vân
Tran Cao Vân (1866-1916) was a mandarin of the Nguy?n Dynasty who was best known for his activities in attempting to expel the French colonial powers in Vietnam. He orchestrated an attempt to expel the French and install Emperor Duy Tân as the boy ruler of an independent Vietnam, but the uprising failed. Vân was executed while Duy Tân was exiled by the French. Vân's father was believed to be of scholar-gentry background, but never passed the imperial examination system. Instead, he made a living for himself by running a silkworm and rice production business. Vân was born in the village of Phu Cu in the prefecture of Dien Ban in Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam. The prefecture was also the home area of General Hoàng Di?u, who commanded the garrison Citadel of Hanoi when it fell to France in 1882 and then committed suicide, marking the start of colonisation.[1]
Father Alexander de Rhodes
Father Alexander de Rhodes (15 March 1591 - 5 November 1660) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary published in Rome in 1651. Alexander de Rhodes was born in Avignon, France. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Rome on 24 April 1612 to dedicate his life to missionary work. He arrived in Indochina about 1619. A Jesuit mission had been established in Hanoi in 1615; Rhodes arrived there in 1620.
Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings (born 1943) is an American academic and author. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the chair of the history department at the University of Chicago. He specializes in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. In his youth, Cumings was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea for less than a year before going to Columbia University in 1968.[1] He joined the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars at Columbia after Mark Selden formed a chapter there, and published extensively in its journal, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars.
Sir Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson
Sir Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson (1891-1974) was an English civil servant, businessman, and Orientalist best known for his studies of the Turkish language. 1962. Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Routledge (reprint, 2002). 1964. "The future of Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Studies"; Asia Major (New Series) volume 11, part 1: 54-77. 1972. An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hafez Ibrahim
Hafez Ibrahim was an Egyptian poet, called Al-Neel, means the Poet of the Nile. He was one of several poets that revived Arabic poetry during the latter half of the 19th Century.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Asian-Style Stir-Fried Chicken and Broccoli
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Recipes ideas, once in your head, are like flies that hover round a picnic table. They just won't go away until you swat them. In order to test one particularly persistent idea, I purchased one of those super-size bags of broccoli from a local warehouse store. I had good results sooner than I expected and I was left with more broccoli than I had anticipated. My creative energies had ebbed by this time, so I decided to fall back on one of the older dishes that Bob and I both enjoy. It is by no means our favorite Chinese dish, but it is one that was taught in a cooking class that I attended in Hong Kong and there are memories associated with it. Prior to that class, I had never used the cooking technique known as velveting. The technique is used to produce extraordinarily tender meat for stir-frying. It involves marinating whatever is to be stir fried in a mixture of egg white and cornstarch prior to blanching it in oil. It is blanched only until its color changes and then drained before adding it to a stir fry to finish cooking with other ingredients. Velveting helps keep the meat moist, as well as adding flavor to it. The class was a mind sticker on several levels. Chicken and Broccoli is a Chinese-American creation and not one you would generally find on a Chinese table, much less a Chinese cooking school. It was selected for the class because our hosts, ever mindful of our comfort, wanted us to have food that we were comfortable with. They really meant well. The instructor was a wonderful cook, but very proud. He refused to use a translator because he thought his language skills sufficient to teach the class. Things sometimes get lost in translation, and when he was asked why meat was velveted he said it was to get rid of bad smells. I think he meant off-flavors, but we'll never know for sure. I've eaten enough street food to know about off-flavors, but for our purposes it's best to think of velveting as a way to assure that meat or poultry cooked at high temperatures has a flavorful coating that also protects it from burning. If you enjoy Chicken and Broccoli at your local Chinese restaurant I think you'll really enjoy this home-style version of it. I promise it smells good. Here's the recipe.
Asian-Style Stir-Fried Chicken and Broccoli...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon water
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs cut in 1-inch cubes
1 large egg white
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups vegetable oil for deep frying
12 ounces broccoli flowerets, cut in bite-size pieces
2 crushed garlic cloves
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar, or to taste
1) To make sauce: Combine oyster sauce, light soy, dark soy, and water in a small bowl and set aside. In another small bowl, mix the cornstarch and water thickener and set aside.
2) To make chicken: Combine egg white, cornstarch and salt together in a bowl. Add chicken cubes to mixture and toss to coat all surfaces. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3) To cook chicken: Preheat a wok. Add oil and heat to 275 degrees F. Oil is ready when a piece of chicken floats. Add chicken cubes and cook until they just turn white. Remove cubes from oil as soon as they turn white. Reserve oil. Drain chicken on paper towels.
4) To cook broccoli: Set a large frying pan or another wok over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of chicken cooking oil. When hot, add crushed garlic and stir fry until garlic is fragrant. Add broccoli, sprinkle with sugar and salt, stir frying briefly. Be careful it doesn't burn. Add 1/2 cup water, cover pan and cook for 5 minutes, or until broccoli turns bright green and is crisp tender. Remove from pan and drain.
5) To finish: Clean out pan. Add 2 more tablespoons oil. Add broccoli and chicken, stirring and tossing to cook chicken through, about 2 to 5 minutes more. Add sauce and cornstarch mixture in the middle of the wok and stir quickly to thicken. Mix everything together and serve hot over steamed rice. Yield: 4 servings.
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51 comments :
- Martha said...
sounds yummy, I'll have to try the velveting sometime. Thanks for the tip!
- April 15, 2011 at 11:03 PM
- Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook said...
Great looking stir fry! Looks delicious!
- April 15, 2011 at 11:20 PM
- Sandra said...
I love stir fry and you made it so beautifully! Fantastic photography as always!
Hope you have great weekend! - April 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
This looks SO good. It is one of my DIL's favorite Chinese dishes, too
- April 15, 2011 at 11:32 PM
- FLORY said...
Wonderful!I won't miss a recipe from your delicious blog!Hope you have great weekend!
- April 16, 2011 at 12:00 AM
- Chiara said...
thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe Mary, I love stir fry!!! have a lovely weekend, a hug...
- April 16, 2011 at 12:39 AM
- mia xara said...
I've never heard of the velveting procedure, Mary..Thank you for sharing..The chicken looks very inviting and very well paired with the broccoli!Have a great weekend!
- April 16, 2011 at 1:03 AM
- My Little Space said...
Oh wow, what a great experience there in HK. Probably, you're now cook better than I do. :o) Have a great day. Take care.
Blessings, Kristy - April 16, 2011 at 1:20 AM
- Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger said...
This reminds me of a sweet-and-sour chicken meal we home-cooked the other day!
Duncan In Kuantan - April 16, 2011 at 3:18 AM
- dr.antony said...
That looks a perfect bite.An original.I haven't seen this combination before.
- April 16, 2011 at 3:31 AM
- Unknown said...
What a lovely combination! It is time for me to get velveting!
- April 16, 2011 at 3:52 AM
- Mercy said...
Your blog is absolutely mouth watering!! Thanks so much for your kind words at Rogues Home Cooked, I am glad you liked my hard work. Will definitely be stopping by again.
- April 16, 2011 at 3:53 AM
- Maria said...
I haven't had much success with stir-fries, but I'd love to try this one!
- April 16, 2011 at 5:22 AM
- Rita said...
As soon as I saw the picture I knew it was a must try; I must pick up some oyster sauce.
Rita - April 16, 2011 at 7:03 AM
- Lucie said...
Interesting technique, and delicious-looking recipe. I could eat broccoli every single day!
- April 16, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
My stir fries are rarely asked to a repeat performance. I've never heard of velveting. This might be one that stands out. Have a great weekend. May the best "traveler" win in the destination debate.
Bonnie - April 16, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Suman Singh said...
Simply delicious!
Have a nice weekend! - April 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- Kim said...
Stry fries are always a good way to eat healty! I like this one a lot! Have a nice week-end!
- April 16, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Jocie's Mom said...
Great tip on the velveting! I like to stir fry but it never seems to come out 'right' for me. Maybe this is what I'm missing. Yours looks incredibly tasty :) Thanks so much for sharing!
- April 16, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Ann said...
I just love stir-fried chicken and this sounds like a delicious version. Now I'm hungry for some.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and your sweet comment. - April 16, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Clint said...
This looks really, really good. My stomach's rumblin' now. Thanks.
- April 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Yet another tempting and delicious meal. Thanks, Mary.
- April 16, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Thank you for the information about "velveting". I was not aware of the technique.
- April 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- lena said...
hi mary, i think the velveting not only helps to make the chicken more tender, yeah, it helps to get rid of 'frozen' smell..just like some of the fish that really gives us a 'fishy'smell, we marinate and ddep fried them , it will reduce that fishy smell. This chicken of yours simply looks delicious!
- April 16, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- CkretsGalore said...
Mmmmm I love chicken and broccoli! Wish anyone else in my household did because I would try this for sure.
Never heard of velveting. Thanks for the info. - April 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Elaine said...
Velveting sounds like such an interesting technique and one I would like to try. Both my kids are still home, so I know they would love this dish. Have a wonderful day, Mary!
- April 16, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- June said...
MMMM it looks fabulous and thank you for the info on velveting. I've used the method but didn't know it had a name. I always learn something from you Mary along with a daily chuckle. It's interesting how every culture has their own way of dealing with "off flavors".
- April 16, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Ballerina Girl said...
Yummy! Almost all of my family love Chinese food...unfotunately here where we live we can not find any, nor the ingredients necessary...BUT
now that I have you on my sidebar, once I get back to the US I can find your recipes for these again and try them out!
BG - April 16, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Unknown said...
I took a Chinese cooking class years ago and completely forgot about the velveting technique, thanks for mentioning it here. I've been making stir fry broccoli beef using fish sauce instead of oyster sauce for a little different flavor. I will have to try your recipe using chicken, it does look good and I can imagine it has a heavenly aroma;-)
- April 16, 2011 at 11:11 AM
I love the simplicity of a good chicken and broccoli dish. Yours really accentuates the bright green healthiness of the broccoli! Yum!
- April 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Joanne said...
I've never heard of this technique before but it's definitely super intriguing! I'll have to give it a try!
- April 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- StephenC said...
I am wondering if any suitable velveting result could be obtained under the broiler. I really don't like to deep-fry. I suppose it could be worth a try.
- April 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- The Magic Pie said...
wow!!! it seems delicious :)))
- April 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- nanny said...
I love stir fry and these flavors are making my mouth water.....wish my husband felt the same way, we'd have it tonight...oh, well!!
- April 16, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Omg, cant take my eyes,simply irresistible..
- April 16, 2011 at 2:28 PM
You chicken looks so delicious Mary!
I love all the flavors in this dish- my mouth is watering!
Tammy - April 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Melissa @IWasBornToCook said...
This looks great - my husband would love it. Have a great weekend!
- April 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Tanna said...
Mary, I love your cooking class stories!! blessings ~ tanna
- April 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Katie said...
I've heard of "velveting" but never actually knew what it meant! You learn something new every day I suppose. :)
- April 16, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- Claudia said...
I am going to try "velveting" for my next stir fry. I just love the term! I know it's not authentic Chinese but I do love broccoli and chicken in a stir fry and you can vary it each time. The photo received everyone's attention in this home.
- April 16, 2011 at 8:08 PM
- teresa said...
what gorgeous flavors, it looks so bright and healthy!
- April 16, 2011 at 9:32 PM
- SKIP TO MALOU said...
Thank you for sharing the technique of velveting. I may have done it already but it's only now I learn about its term.
I also hear you about ideas in your head, sometimes I also dream about them too.. haha even in my sleep they hunt me!
Great looking dish... I would love to have a bowl of jasmine rice with it right now.
I hope you are enjoying the weekend Mary!
Malou - April 16, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Miri Leigh said...
These flavors looks wonderful! Can't wait to try this out!
- April 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
I'll have to try that velveting technique. You can tell I'm not much of a cook, as I've never even heard of it before! This beef and broccoli dish looks delicious!
- April 16, 2011 at 11:41 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
This is a great recipe Mary, and I learned something new.I have wondered how the chicken at Chinese restaurants stays so moist; now I know. Thankyou!
Have a lovely weekend. - April 16, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- That Girl said...
Stir fried chicken always makes a regular appearance here.
- April 17, 2011 at 12:09 AM
- Monet said...
Oh this looks good. Isn't it funny how so many "Chinese" dishes would never be found in a true Chinese kitchen? This is one of my dad's favorites, so I will have to give it a try. Thank you for sharing your sweet self with me tonight. I always know I can find something delicious and uplifting when I visit. I hope you have a safe and happy Sunday.
- April 17, 2011 at 1:00 AM
- Katerina said...
I have never seen this technique before! The results look fantastic!
- April 17, 2011 at 1:47 AM
- Cooking Creation said...
Mary, this recipe really speaks to me. I love me some Asian food and this sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing. :)
- April 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Catherine said...
Dear Mary, Your stir-fried chicken looks great! Love making my own "take out" ~ You control the ingredients and the price is right! Yours looks wonderful. Blessings, Catherine
- April 17, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- Jenn @ Youknow...that Blog? said...
I've never seen this method before either - sounds involved, but totally worth it. I'll have to try it :) Thanks Mary!
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