Chinese Paintings By Madame Wu Hsing-Fên, the Most Distinguished Paintress of Modern China
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1368-1644. The T^iig Wang tower was erected in the T'ang dynasty (A. D. GOO-900) at the Chang Chiang gate of Nan-chang-fu in Kiang-si province when the son of the Emperor Kao Tsung was created a prince of T^ng. Later on, the mih'tary governor of that province, "S.'en Po-hsu repaired it and gave a banquet to his colleagues on the 9th day of the 9the moon, a festival called " Chung Yang " by the Chinese. It was on that occasion that the famous poet Wang Pu wrote a long essay about this tower and ...it has been considered one of the masterpieces in Chinese literature ever since. This painting illustrates the main idea in that essay. " Ch'iu Ying studied under Chon Chfin, and contented himself with the simple r6le of copyist, producing many pictures which were not to be distinguished from the originals, even by experts. It has already b;'oome fairly clear that the position of a copyist in Chinege art is not altogether that which is asiigned to the copyist in Western countries; especially as in Chioa considerable latitude seems to be allowed, and any copyist would meet with high praise who might manage to improve on the original." (Giles, An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, p.
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