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...brushstrokes take on the appearance of solid ground. What distinguishes this section is not only the meticulous attention it gives to the variations within the Southern Song landscape tradition but also the fact that we see this transformation through the works of its most innovative practitioners: Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, the founding fathers of the so-called Ma-Xia school of landscape painting...
...power of "Tales from the Land of Dragons" comes from the visual strength of its main works and from the occasional moments when astute juxtapositions combined with judicious wall text produce an interesting argument, as in the case of the Ma-Xia school. Though the exhibition, judging from the introduction, seems to want us to walk out with some sort of understanding of the influence of religion on Chinese art, one instead wonders about the assorted pieces of a puzzle that have been scattered throughout the space of the exhibition. What of the relationship of calligraphy to painting, the differences...
...U.S.A. Dream Girls--Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie et al.--looked unbeatable on their recent world tour, but they could be upset in this competitive field, perhaps by the physical Australians, or by the Chinese, who feature the Great Wall of 6-ft. 9-in. Zheng Hai Xia...
...Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. From the beginning of his political career, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting as a freshman Representative in 1943 the resolution that ultimately helped create the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later, when he reached the Senate. DIED. XIA YAN, 94, prominent literary figure in China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty...
Zhao Li, 25, one of many who choose to xia hai (plunge into the sea), quit her state-assigned job as an interpreter to work in a foreign-owned public relations firm. Her salary quintupled and she moved into her own two-room apartment. When her parents tell Zhao that her friends are all having children, she replies, "I have no time to be married." Chinese are marrying at a later age, casual premarital sex is more common, and the urban young increasingly choose their own spouses. "It used to be that Communist Party membership was important," said Wang Zhixiong...