CHINESE SILK PAINTING.

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The Braves and the Fair: Men of Letters and Women of Fame in Old China. An attractive album celebrating ten virtuous couples from Chinese history, all embodying the Confucian of harmony between husband and wife. 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 ten paintings faces a caption in Chinese and English.The story of Han Shi-Chung and Liang Hung-Yu is representative: "Han Shi-Chung rose from rank and file to the top in the army. He fought many a courageous battle for his master, King Kao Tsung of [the] Sung Dynasty. His wife Liang Hung-Yu possessed no less martial spirit as her husband. Once, a foreign tribe Chin invaded China. She got up [to] the tower on the city wall to act as a drummer to call forth fighting spirit among the men in her husband's forces. The enemy was routed at last".

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