With a melancholic contralto voice and charismatic stage presence, Anita Mui Yim Fong, who died from cervical cancer in 2003, was the biggest female Canto-pop singer in Hong Kong. Unconstrained by the conservative social mores of the 1980s, she embraced liberal Western values and sang about a girl’s first sexual encounter in Bad Girl (1985). In the music video for.
Violence and oppression, we are told in the introduction to this collection of tales, are foundational to modern Taiwan, providing “a legacy that continues to influence its contemporary society.”
It is interesting, then, that an anthology subtitled “Stories about the White Terror,” offers few instances of physical violence, a notable exception being a neighborhood dust-up involving a gossip nicknamed Big Mouth Yang.
This incident, from Sung Tse-lai’s (宋澤萊) “Rice Diary,” is the first snapshot in a montage of quotidian happenings in the village of Daniunan (打牛湳), Yunlin County. The story forms part of a series focusing on life in this village
cruise over here this is where the contractor that was working over night punctured to the gas line that cause the issues out here. they re still working out here but they are saying they are 15-20 minutes away from reopening parts of downtown orinda this is the third time in two days we ve seen a ghastly this one was a contractor using a back hoe ruptured the main. yesterday was caused by construction crews as well. the concern is how long it takes pg&e to stop it. this has taken hours to shut off the lake. pg&e is defense a lot of times they re not on the scene when that happens it takes awhile to get here and figure out what line has been ruptured and they go through the last places they can shut off. i don t know the particulars of this situation i just got a lot here. i will find out as quickly as i can how long it took them. you ll see any residents around we heard there were evacuated now they were allowed back again. looks like they re allowed back in business