(03/11/08) - Times Online: The heroic Englishman China will never forget -
Last October, sponsored by Family of Daye and Dongchu, a Huangshi local news network, a group of 7 people including 3 reporters spent one week on a special trip: "Looking for footprints of children of Huangshi". Their trip started in Feng County of Shaanxi Province, where Shuangshipu Town is located, and ended in Shandan, Gansu Province. In olden days Feng County was called Shuangshi Town and that was where George Hogg started transferring the school children from (to Shandan). They did not find anything about George Hogg during the trip until their last stop, Shandan. As one of the past headmasters, Hogg's name is well-known at the Shandan Bailie School (rebuilt in 1985). But it seems no one in Shandan knows of Hogg's past prior his arriving in Shandan. Their discovery also concluded that using the name of "Huang Shi" (Huangshi) in the script/film is possibly the result of a misspelling of the placename in Chinese. It should be "Shuang Shi" (double stones), Shaanxi Province, instead of "Huang Shi" (yellow stone), Hubei Province. Nevertheless, the film's name remains "Children of Huang Shi."
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