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Proxy In Canton, China, because Shih Kwangtung could not come from Singapore for his marriage ceremony, the bride's parents selected a handsome rooster to take his place, married...
Authoress Buck's magnum opus is not her own. She herself does not know who the author was, says it might have been Shih Nai-an but thinks it more likely that this massive (1,279-page) medieval novel, like the cathedrals of France, the epics of Homer, was the work of many forgotten hands. First written down some six centuries ago, it probably had wide if fragmentary currency 200 years before that. Says Translator Buck: "All Men Are Brothers is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made...
...Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than the famed Tale of Genji (TIME, July 3). Shui Hu Chuan's Chinese manners are polite: each of its 70 chapters begins, "It is said:" ends in some such manner as. "How then did Shih Chin and the three chieftains escape? Pray hear it told in the next chapter...
...Rumors have been set afloat to the effect that bandits were responsible for the collapse of dikes, but meantime Liu Shih. the Civil Governor of Honan [province] has openly dispatched a brigade of troops to the Lanfeng district...
...dozen Chinese, led by Philosopher Hu Shih...