Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reproduce the scenery of the Kialing Valley. Artist Wu Tao-tzu went out to lie under the trees, listen to the murmuring streams. Then, having identified himself with the scene, he took his brush, dashed off One Hundred Miles of the Kialing River Valley in a single day. Artist Li Ssu-hsun, who was also a general in the Emperor's army, labored for long months to depict the same scene. Presented to the Emperor, both paintings were judged "excellent in the extreme...
Neither painting in the competition has survived, but both the followers of Wu and General Li can be traced throughout Chinese painting history. And some idea of what Li's painstaking rendition looked like can be got from a work of the general's son, Li Chao-tao (known as the "Little General"). Travelers in a Mountain Pass (opposite], a rare, 1,000-year-old painting on silk, is believed to be his. Done in metallic blues and greens, it creates a panorama of cloud-shrouded peaks and gorges against which is shown a group of horsemen...
...depict the bloody events of history was an affront to Confucian principles of restraint and propriety. When Painter Li...
...reach 855 million in 15 years' time, pointed out that even with all the country's remaining virgin land broken up and cultivated, there would still not be enough food for all mouths. "Without planned childbirth," said China's brisk, close-cropped (female) Minister of Health Li Teh-chuan, "China will never be truly free...
...spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters and postcards last month. Talk about the cost of Government even reached Broadway; in Li'l Abner Marryin' Sam sang: Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky,/And Government expenditures have never been so high. But out of all the commotion came only the same old reasons why the budget is hard to cut: peace, progress and pork...