Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...
...shih is not the name he started with, either. Many years ago, he was plain Ch'ih Huang, a carpenter's apprentice from Hunan. After work one day he collected some shrimps, crabs, crickets, and tiny bugs, and put them all into a glass box. "I observed these creatures with my eye," says he, "and put them into my heart." One by one, he painted their "portraits"; and one by one, to his great surprise, he sold what he had painted...
What Ricksha Boys Know. So Ch'ih Huang, the carpenter, became Ch'ih Pai-shih, the artist, to paint for the rest of his days-lotus blossoms, palm leaves, banana trees, but mostly crickets, chicks, shrimps and crabs. "Only the rich have known landscapes," says he. "But every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab...
...with a wispy grey beard, a high thin voice, and a rambling house in Peiping. There he works behind peeling walls that surround a series of tiny gardens, through which ducks and relatives waddle and wander happily all day long. Ch'ih Pai-shih has 30 relatives living with him, and supports 20 more in Hunan. His household includes ten children of his own, the youngest of whom he hopefully calls...
...been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...