Centuries later, the descendants of Shun had ruled over the State of Chen, with their capital founded at Wan Ch’iu (宛丘), nowadays the Huaiyang district in Honan province, which had formerly once been the ancient capital of Fu Hsi.

There was a black drainpipe running the entire height of the hotel wall alongside her balcony and I managed to pull myself onto it, gripping the rough, rusty metal as firmly as I could.

It was about the only attempt at humour Raymond had made at the dispatch box that year, which may have been the reason so few members laughed.

Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.…The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.