You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat – tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight – is one of the ...
Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...
Last week, we talked about different larger sailing vessels that were common in the 17th, and 18th. and 19th centuries and how they were used. While much of the same terminology is used to describe ...
(CNN) — Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away ...