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Word: ming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret weapons of the fierce T'ang cavalry were their powerful Bactrian steeds, by legend so mettlesome that they literally sweated blood. The artist who most magnificently portrayed them was the painter Han Kan. Summoned to court by T'ang Emperor Ming Huang, Han was ordered to study the paintings of one of the court painters, took the "Illustrious Sovereign" aback by replying: "My masters are all in Your Majesty's stables." The results of Han's study of the Emperor's 40,000 horses can be seen in his Cowherd (opposite), a painting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yen for Art | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yen for Art | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...palm. "Ha," he cried, grinning for the first time, "I have exterminated another fly." Embarrassed, his mother mentioned the Reds' campaign to destroy the four pests. Li Po broke in: "I have already trapped and killed 20 rats and sparrows and exterminated 300 mosquitoes and flies." Hsiao Ming ordered her son to go off and wash his hands. Li Po had expected praise. Wounded, he replied, "Stop ordering me about like an American running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Father to the Man | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Anxious to answer these questions in their own way, the Huangs asked Hsiao Ming to leave Li Po in Hong Kong for schooling. "They would not mind if I stayed in Hong Kong," answered Hsiao Ming, "but if the boy did not return to the nursery, it would cause my husband great trouble." Then she added: "You find the ways of my son strange, and even suggest-though I know you meant no offense-that he has not been receiving the right kind of teaching. I cannot tell any longer what is right or wrong. I only know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Father to the Man | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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