CHINESE SILK PAINTING.

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The Twenty-Four Cases of Filial Piety. An attractive celebration of Confucian moral exemplars from Chinese history, including a man who is willing to bury his son alive to free up food for his mother, an official who renounces his rank to search for his parent, and a lady who breastfeeds her mother-in-law to restore her health.This album was produced in Fuzhou by the Ling Yu Sing Gift Shop, which specialized in momentos for the lucrative tourist market. Each of the 24 paintings faces a caption in Chinese and English.

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