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...quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa's leading landscape artist and teacher last week demonstrated his technique in the lecture room of Manhattan's China House, crowded to overflowing with curious Manhattan artists and Huang's old pupils...
...chun, assistant professor of chemical engineering at a Midwestern state university, went to Red China last month; the U.S. did not stop him, because all Chinese refugees are free to leave. Another Chinese student recently sent his wife to London, joined her there and traveled home by way of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, scores of other Chinese are racked by doubt...
...Congress opened with what Peking Radio called a "thunderous standing ovation" for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. That done, the delegates listened to a mournful recitation of China's economic woes by Chief Planner Li Fu-chun. Nearly three years after the announcement of his Five Year Plan, Li confessed that his grandiose project to remake China in the image of Soviet Russia by 1957 was hardly worth the paper it was written...
...Instead of driving one-half of China's peasants into collective farms in the next 2½ years. Peking will be content to drive only one-third of them. But let no one imagine that this means any letup in the drive to collectivization, said Li Fu-chun. "China's small peasant economy" must be abolished and replaced with "collective farming...
...Sham Chun River, which divides Communist and British territory at the edge of Hong Kong, was running bank full. One afternoon, four U.S. Air Force officers sloshed through the muddy approach on the Communist side of the Sham Chun, splashed across the puddles on the bridge at Lo Wu and stepped into freedom. Among the first to greet them was Father Ambrosio Poletti, a Roman Catholic missionary based in Hong Kong, who offered them a pack of Lucky Strikes. Said Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., as he lit up: "Gosh! Remember them...