THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935
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Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 22. 1937- irresistible, if only from a sense of frustration and impatience. This, in bald outline, is the
The Amazing Chinese
Here There
and
Everywhere
"SEVEN PILLARSTM OMISSIONS
When TE Lawrence's "Seven: Pillars of Wisdom” appeared în London this month it was found to contain a preface by Mr. A. W. Lawrence, the author's brother.
This makes it clear that the text of this new edition was the same as that of the 30-yuines edition of |1926, except in a few minute
particulars
TREASURES FROM CHINA
MAGNIFICENT ART ON VIEW IN LONDON
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION
ITEMS DESCRIBED
(By R. L. Hobson)
London calligraphic Indeed, calli
THE cruiser Suffolk arrived at{graphy, which is an indispen-
T Portsmouth recently bear-sable part of an artist's training.
ing the Chinese Palace Trea-ranks in China fully as high as For example, Mr. A. W. Law-sures which are to be shown in painting itself. There had pre- rence explains that from three the International Exhibition of viously been little opportunity pages there are omissions so that Chinese Art: at Burlington for the study of Chinese calli the feelings of living persons may House during the coming win-graphy in Europe. not be hurt. But these omissions, ter added together, make no than a few lines.
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IMMORAL OR DIMORTAL?.
more
|:|·| Another feature of the ex-
are
Palace
It is a unique event. Surely (hibition which cannot fail to no British warship has ever evoke general enthusiasm will before carried such a precious be the display of ceramics. It cargo from the other side of is commonplace that in the the world. The occasion, too. potter's art the Chinese An amusing inclusion in the
Lis unique- This will be the first unrivalled. new edition is a series of ques-
international exhibition On
Ceramic Treasures Itions, addressed by the publisher
Chinese art.
The boast will be fully sub ito Lawrence of Arabia concerning The exhibition will be stantiated by the ceramic con-
Revolt in the Desert, with the thoroughly comprehensive, in tributions from the author's answers. Here are two cluding all branches of Chinese collections. The Sung móno- typical examles:
art from the earliest days to the chrome porcelains with their Q-Meleager, the immoral end of the 18th century. There lovely grey celadon poet" I have put "immortal" will be priceless paintings, lavender, and cream poet, but the author may mean sculptures in wood, stone and glazes; the brilliant Ming reds immoral after all.
metal, ancient bronze vessels and blues, and, the blue and Im-and-jades, exquisite porcelain, white of the Ming and later As gay brocades and textiles. periods will delight the eye of not carvings in ivory and wood, connoisseur and layman.
Among the polychrome paint-
A-Immorality I know mortality I cannot. judge. you please: Meleager will
sue us for libel
lacquer, enamels and many
green,
white
wares.
Q.--Sherif Abd el Mayia of choice objects representing the ed porcelains, too, there is a Slip 68 becomes el Main, el arts in which the Chinese have peculiarly welcome series of Mayein, el Muein, el Marin, and always excelled. el Mayein
A-Good ex I call this really ingenions.
eighteenth century True Greatness
They include some of the dain- Visitors to Burlington House test imaginable porcelains, thin will be able to appreciate for the as eggshell and exquisitely first time the true greatness of painted in famille rose colours. Your Daily Smile! Chinese art; not the mere fancy in a taste that is purely Chinese.
lamps.TM
Sare:
trade goods. the amusing Very little porcelain of this magots and chinoiseries which quality has as yet reached What is floodlighting, BII?”.
have too long been regarded in Europe as it is so keenly de- "Well, I don't rightly know. Maybe it's got something to do with are Europe as typical of China, but sired by the Chinese collectors
the things on which China's If pictures, bronzes and por- unassailable claims to artistic celains are the chief items greatness-are based.
among the Chinese Palace trés- Little Betty and Junior had attend- They will be impressed with sures, there are still other cate ed a talk by a returned missionary. the antiquity of many of these gories which are by no means
A Hollow Sound
political condition of China today, and there appears to be In view of the fact that the only one way in which it may civilisation of China probably be set right and that is by antedates that of most of the closer co-operation between the Western world by some thou-jarious political factions with sands of years, it sounds sin-all working for the good of the gularly inapt
to speak of whole instead of the good of
"What did he tell you about the China's lack of political solidari-themselves
heathen?" asked then grandma.objects, representing a con-negligible. ty and cohesion. It would seem The enormous change of mind oh, he said that they were often tinuous tradition of full 3,000 instance, 29 pieces of tapestry that a nation which has re-that this would entail on the very hungry, and when they beat on years. What other nation to and embroidery mounted like mazined more or less intact part of by far the large majori- their tum-tums, it could be heard for day can boast such a proud re- pictures, which will prove a since its first emergence as anty of China's political leaders miles."
cord?
great attraction for their bear- entity would by its very exist seems as far off as the mil-
At Least One Thing
They will see. for instance,ty of design and gay colours.
Squelched
that it is the wonderful tenacitance for which Mr. Chow calls? " was the crashing rejoinder religious figures will astonish approximately
WHEN FRIENDS FELL OUT
Quarrel Follows Complaint
There are,
for*
ence belie the suggestion that lenium. Mr. Chow Lu, speak-] Student: "What is the date, bronzes of noble form, cunning- There are some 60 carvings in there are faults and very ing from the comparative please?"
y decorated with reliefs and jade, hard stones and rhinoceros serious faults in its political security and independence of Professor: "Never mind the date tooled designs, which date back horn; and there are cloisonne structure: the inference would the South-West, where political The examination is more important beyond the siege of Troy and enamels, glass and lacquer seem to be that the modern leaders have no foreign Power have something right on my paper which far surpass the best con-
Student: "Well, sir, I wanted to
Old Books political structure of a sovereign on their heels to dictate or sug- State as we know it has not. ingest policy at every move, can
temporary metal work of the Finally, there are old Chinese Mediterranean civilisations. The books from the National Library fact, that quality of stability well call upon the Northern A pompous individual, posing as Chinese have always excelled in in Peiping which will illustrate which in modern politics stands leaders to be "men." and an authority on education, went into for strength All this is no ethically he is right, but where the local sensol with the intention of bronze casting, and the fine the art of printing and wood- doubt true; but the Man from are the concrete resources upon putting the fifth grade through their Séries shown of ritual vessels. block illustration. Mars visiting modern China which the country could draw began. "What is the capital of 'Ol-sonal ornaments, shrines and cases on the Suffolk containing All told, there are 95 packing paces in the geography of Europe. He chariot fittings. mirrors. per- would be justified in remarking for the show of practical resis land?”-
800 objects. the modern craftsmen by their They were chosen out of many. ty of the Chinese as a nation Where is the driving power, the from the smart boy of the class.
beauty of forme
others in Shanghai, where the which makes it exist as a poli-means" to co-ordinate it, and,
Silk Fabrics tical entity in spite of not be most necessary of all, the
balk of the Peiping Palace Another achievement of an-treasures have been stored since cause of, any cohesion that its modern weapons by which such
cient China is the manufacture 1933; and the choice was made political leaders can give it resistance could be made effec
of silk fabrics. Exxactly how by the European selection com And he would be right. This tual? Where, finally, is that
old this is we are not sure, but mittee of five members in collab is not the place to argue, even militant national spirit without if we had the ability to do so, which no such campaign can be
the fact that beautiful brocades boration with their Chinese were woven as early as a cen-colleagues It was a fascinat which we have not, what parti- carried to a successful conclu-
tury before the Christian era ing but arduous task which took cular form of Government is sion? They all seem to us to
Two good friends, Kwan Yuen has been established by recent some two months to complete best suited to the most hard-be utterly lacking in presenting and Leung Yan, appeared as excavations. About the same (Continued on Page 11.)" working, the most patient in day China, not from any fault complainant and defendant, reime the pencil brush was first trouble, the least fairly used of the people at large, but spectively, in an assault case, made; and another epoch-mak- people in the world Whether simply because her inner which was heard by Mr E Ing discovery by the Chinese KOWLOON ROBBERY their general condition of life strength has been continuously Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon beneath centuries of dynastic drained away by decades of mis-Magistracy this morning-
gave paper to the world. Silk, rule compares favourably or not management. spoliation
paper and the brush prepared and The complainant stated that he the way for the greatest of with the general condition of factional discord. The people and defendant used to live to Chinese artistic achievements. the backbone of the country themselves, in fact, have always gether and were good friends. the peasant to day can hardly shown most remarkable powers Yesterday, while he was talking Though very few of the ear be argued from lack of reliable of resistance passive, maybe, to a friend, defendant came up to test examples of either of these lery and clothing, was stolen data, much less stated as a fact.but resistance, nevertheless him and told him that he was too remain to-day there is enough from the ground floor of No That there were appalling in- Other nationalities called upon noisy. Words led to blows, during to show that both had reached 47, Sung Tai Street, Kowloon, justices and hardships in to suffer one-hundredth part of which defendant, it a was alleged an advanced stage by the fourth which is occupied by a Cainese Imperial rule seems to be well the depredations man-made struck complainant with a wooden century. The classic periods named Sam Pak-kwong established; but that in recent and Act of God which the stool.
years the country has suffered populace of China has had to Defendant was bound over in from a monstrous drain of ex-suffer in its troubled history bond of $25 to be of good be ploitation. dishonesty and would have disintegrated and haviour for six months. rapacity on the part of its self-come to nought long before this.
calligraphy and painting
$1,565 In Money And Jewellery
Over $2.174, în money, jewel-
Europe was still in the Dark midnight and 5 am yesterday, of Chinese painting passed winle The theft occurred - between Ages, and the prolific dy and in a report made to the po- of the Sung (960-1279) and lice at about 8 am. it was 26- Yuan (1280-1368) produc vealed that the burglars enter-
elected "lords" can also hardly Floods, famines, epidemies of harder for less money and in thousands of mature mastered the premises by boring a be denied. In a country of such disease, the terrible scourge finitely fewer luxuries than pieces before the first of the hole in the back door of the enormous: ramifications, where (because it is more or less con- anybody else in the world. In
saw the house, thus enabling them – to communications in the interior, tinuous) of banditry and ex-spite of hardships which would European primitives
Irmbolt it from the inside. are practically nil, where self-ploitation agai and
break anybody else they come
The total amount of money. stolen amounts to $1565, which
$100 bank not rests have
contained communities differ- ravage the peasants of China: up smiling and someh ing in language, outlook and but with a remarkable cap on mentality as are diverse as the for creating Ph
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