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...there is any common factor that unites the diverse styles and schools in this exhibition-the misty gray impalpability of Ma Lin in the 13th century with the dark stormy flood of ink from which Mu Ch'i's tiger rises, or the epigrammatic beauty of the late 15th century P'eng Hsü's plum branch-it is the pursuit of what Taoist scholars called...
...because they don't try to serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
...faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt on a Flemish engraving after Rubens. By the time...
Headed by Chu Mu-chi, 56, director of the New China News Agency, the delegation has shown an omnivorous appetite for economics, sociology and Americana in general. Mayor John Lindsay treated them to a tour of Harlem streets, where they took time out to chat with sidewalk winos. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bestowed honorary citizenship on the visitors. In Washington they donned hard hats to interview construction workers. Any mention of statistics brought out pens and notebooks. Informed during an inspection of an Illinois ranch that only 4% of the 220 million U.S. citizens work on farms, Chao...
When the Chinese get home, their reportage is likely to be friendly. Chu Mu-chi's seven brief dispatches through the New China News Agency have already signaled a new mellowing. "The American people are a great people," he wrote in one story, promising that the Chinese journalists "will make their own contribution" to growing Sino-American friendship...