Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees.

I once went to the farther north coast of Fujian Province, our province's northeast part, Sansha Town of Xiapu County, (三沙镇，霞浦县) where, off the coast, the sea water in some place is bluer than it is here. At that time in Sansha Town, after I saw the blue water and an islet which emerges from the blue sea, so bleak, so solitary that I dreamed a fantastic dream at night: I was like a fish in the deep, unfathomable blue.

this man vanished away […]as he had been a blink of the sun

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