He composes for anything from a ranchy guitar, played by a rock-and-roller, to a full symphony.

From Hsin-yang in Honan, Ho Ching-ming was much like Li Meng-yang, being a brilliant young man of low- class origins from a poor family.

The potential revenues of China are immense, but they are ‘shroffed’... by every hand through which they pass.

In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others, which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible[…].