Last November, the state-run Xinhua news service reported on the fall of Yang Hong, a county chief in Shanxi Province.
AS A title, "The Fall of Hong Kong" suggests one of those breathless works, usually from a very short and very British perspective, that were rushed out around the time of Hong Kong's return to China at midnight on June 30th 1997.
The second of three loosely connected sections is a sustained piece of fine writing about colonial life in the 1930s, the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese, and the struggle to rebuild the colony after the end of the war.
In China, she fell in love with British officer Charles Boxer and bore him a daughter, Carola, out of wedlock; Boxer was imprisoned by the Japanese after the fall of Hong Kong, and they waited until the end of the war to reunite.
The dispute also hit the shares of Hong Kong-listed Japanese retailers on Monday, with the department store operator Aeon Stores (Hong Kong) falling to a seven-month low.
Vernacular fiction began with Hŏ Kyun's Hong Kil-dong chŏn ("Tale of Hong Kil-Dong"), which was written in the early 17th century.
HONG KONG — In the most sensational political drama in decades in China, the fall of the former Politburo member Bo Xilai has captivated the country for months with its cloak-and-dagger intrigue, charges of corruption and murder, and a compelling cast of personalities.
HONG KONG — The real March Madness, at least in Asia, has been the precipitous fall of Bo Xilai, one of China's most flamboyant (and now disgraced) Communist Party bosses.
Snow falls, and Ms. Hong opens her mouth to catch it.
This may have led to Jang's alleged fall," said Moon Hong-sik, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy.
Activists fear that some may fall out of schooling altogether; a study cited by the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based group campaigning for workers' rights, said about 6% of migrant children have never attended school.
