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The 1970s was when Hong Kong gained daily news broadcasts. News programmes ranked in the top 10 continuously for a decade. Other segments of the ratings included TV dramas, which averaged 80 to 120 episodes, usually broadcasting at 7:00 pm. 66% of the population tuned in regularly covering 2 to 3 million viewers nightly.
Li Bai was also noted as a master of the jueju, or cut-verse. [50] Ming-dynasty poet Li Pan Long thought Li Bai was the greatest jueju master of the Tang dynasty. [51] Li Bai was noted for his mastery of the lüshi, or "regulated verse", the formally most demanding verse form of the times. Watson notes, however, that his poem "Seeing a Friend ...
It was not until the governorship of Murray MacLehose in the 1970s that the scope of reforms was greatly expanded, transforming the lives of those living in Hong Kong and marking the emergence of Hong Kong as one of the Four Asian Tigers, [36] as well as the emergence of the "Lion Rock Spirit", said to be the "core values of Hong Kong people".
Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong is striving to keep alive the memory of China's June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators from his adopted home of Taiwan, as Chinese authorities again bar all ...
Li Bai's life was made into the film The Eternal Wave, in which he is named Li Xia and portrayed by the famous actor Sun Daolin. Some of his remains were deposited in the National Museum of China. The site of his death, now in Century Park, has a bust statue. [2] Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications also has his sculpture on campus.
A group of independent filmmakers are set to direct “Tiananmen” (working title), a film paying homage to Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema in a story set against the backdrop of the ‘June 4 ...
In 1972, several members of Hong Kong's youth made an expensive trip to Paris to meet with exiled Chinese Trotskyists including Peng Shuzhi. Several of the returnees such as John Shum and Ng Chung-yin left the 70's Biweekly , which was at the time dominated by anarchists, and established a Trotskyist youth group called the Revolutionary ...
Hong Kong's Security Bureau said on Wednesday it would use powers in a new national security law against six self-exiled activists residing in Britain, including cancelling their passports, after ...