Ning-tok

Wu's flat, metallic Ning-tok voice asked from a hidden speaker.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

It was easy to excel in the RCMP, assigned to Chinatown and the wharves and the byways, speaking English and Mandarin and Cantonese-his Ning-tok dialect buried deep-easy to become a fine policeman in that sprawling beautiful city port.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Already one uncle had a small plastic flower factory in a hovel he had rented at 1.50 HK per foot per month lower down the slopes, another had rented a stall in the market area selling tangy rice cakes and rice gruel in their Ning-tok village style.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

He remembered Ning-tok and his father and mother and being sent to school to Hong Kong on his sixth birthday, wanting to learn and to grow up to become a patriot like his parents and the uncle he had seen flogged to death in his village square for being a patriot.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Everyone safe and fed and now my percentage of Ninth Uncle's plastic flower factory, negotiated so patiently, will, with joss, pay my rent in a year or two, and I can eat good Ning-tok rice gruel three times a week free which helps eke out my money so that I needn't take the squeeze that is so easy to obtain but would ruin my future.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

She told him trial she had worked for the same family in Ning-tok ever since she was seven.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

It was easy for him to butter her up by using the odd word of Ning-tok patois; then pretending to be equally surprised when she switched to that dialect and told him she came from the same village and oh how wonderful it was to find a neighbor after all these months among foreigners!

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Spectacles Wu had identified the store as the pharmacy at the crossroads in Ning-tok, the property of the Tok-ling Wu family.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

His father was a tiny Commie cog but a Ning-tok cog nonetheless, so the Hong Kong relation he was sent to would be also.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

It was an eight-by-ten blowup of a tiny section of the Ning-tok photograph, the European's head that was part of the background beside the car.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981