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Chinese folk songs hit the right note abroad (2)
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Chinese folk songs hit the right note abroad (2)
Jia Yuanpei, of the Dong ethnic group from Xiaohuang Village,
Dongjiang County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, said, "We
Dong people believe singing is the best way to express ourselves at
functions such as greeting guests, meeting friends, finding lovers
and celebrating good news."
Ding Yuanhui, a student of Chinese literature with Guangxi Normal
College, said, "We can imagine the comfort and pleasure in life
through traditional folk songs, and new folk songs cater to modern
people's demand for expressing their state of mind."
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A HUNDRED YEARS OF SAKI.(Hector Hugh Munro)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...to chronicle the hounding down of Artemius. It is the work of a genuine original. 'Saki' was the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro, who was born in 1870 and killed in the First World War. Among his contemporaries, Kenneth Grahame and Rudyard...
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The Almanac.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...never reached the assembly or testing stage for nuclear weapons. A thought for the day: Saki, the pen name for Hector Hugh Munro, said, "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." By United Press International Copyright 2003...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One.
PR Newswire
; ...combination of original stories and adaptations of works by leading writers of the time such as Alexander Woollcott, Hector Hugh Munro (aka Saki), John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl and Robert Bloch. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" earned a...
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SHELF LIFE: Billy Boyd
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...pretty much read all of his books. They are fantastic. The man is a genius. The Complete Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro. Set in Africa in the 1920s and 1930s, this is a book of short stories of about three pages each. A very humorous...
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THE ALMANAC
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...never reached the assembly or testing stage for nuclear weapons. A thought for the day: Saki, the pen name for Hector Hugh Munro, said, "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." By United Press International SUBJECT CODE...
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Monday 30 APRIL ; CHOICES
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...the biggest contest of its kind. The Double Life of Saki 9pm BBC4 The life of the witty and macabre comedy writer Hector Hugh Munro, known to many by his pseudonym of Saki, whose unhappy childhood may have been a source of inspiration for much...
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Million dollar birds who can even make their own way home ; TV WATCH
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...finished and may still be flying, but his wife had a lovely holiday. Doubtless, they will be back next year. Hector Hugh Munro, otherwise known as Saki, was a bird man, too, having a distinct liking for kingfishers and hedge sparrows...
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A sarky little piece
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...Street Theatre, W1 ONE OF the mysteries touched upon in Chris Roose's diverting adaptation of the writings of Hector Hugh Munro (aka Saki) concerns his literary alias. One explanation says Saki is a character in The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; TODAY: Births: Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), short-story writer, 1870; Betty (Elizabeth Ruth) Grable, actress, 1916. Deaths: Sam Wanamaker, (Samuel Watenmaker...
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo, 1905; Frederick Sleigh Roberts, first Earl Roberts, field marshal, 1914; Hector Hugh Munro ("Saki"), writer, killed in action 1916; Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, novelist, 1947; Robert Emmet Sherwood...
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