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...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...
Only 90 coastal miles separate Canton and Hong Kong, but they are two whole worlds apart. In the last days of free Canton, before the Communists took over, Hsiao Tao-huang and her husband said goodbye to her sister Hsiao Ming, who was pregnant and was staying behind with her husband. At first the two families wrote occasionally, but then it became wiser not to. Recently in Canton, Hsiao Ming took advantage of relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought...
...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...
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...
...paintings, which for years was held up to young Chinese painters as a model of excellence. But Sesshu returned to Japan a disappointed man, noting that he had sought in vain through 400 provinces for a master, and concluded: "My only teachers of painting are the celebrated places of Ming-the mountains, rivers, grasses and trees . . . The teacher is in myself...