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...released a small selection of photographs in 1992, in the now unobtainable Lo Fung Stories ("Lo Fung" is the archaic literary name for Hong Kong). It was a masterpiece of editing, and a stunning publishing debut: here was a major photographic talent, arriving on the bookshelf or coffee table in a fully formed state and with images that practically hummed with love for the city and its proletariat. "I was born here, I have always lived here and all my work is here," Yau said in the foreword. In his sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what Robert...
...Fung Stories was followed by 1994's Flying Over Childhood - a childless man's deeply empathetic survey of Hong Kong's young (and with an English title, Growing Up in Hong Kong, that doesn't capture the playful poetry of the original). In 1997, he published what was to be his last collection, A Hundred Changes (again, poorly translated from Chinese as City Vibrance). It was a then-and-now volume in which Yau revisited locations he had documented decades earlier in order to record the invariably startling transformations that had taken place in the interim. These books...
Skybus, an airline that will make its inaugural flight in late May, hopes to bring this kind of travel within reach of almost every college student’s wallet, bringing to America what bargain-basement air carriers such as Ryanair brought to Europe: transcontinental flights at Fung-Wah prices—or less...
...scares me not because I fear Fung-Wah prices imply Fung-Wah sketchiness, nor because I fear that Harvard students will procrastinate by jetting around the country...
...pricing system is, for the time being, politically and economically untenable in America. But if politicians and the voting public can’t be trusted to change their views, I hope that we potential consumers can at least let Skybus be someone else’s cross-country Fung...