HUGHES, Ernest Richard.

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China: Body and Soul. First edition, first impression, with the scarce jacket, of this sinological anthology published to raise funds for humanitarian work in China in the wake of the Japanese invasion. The chapters include Laurence Binyon's tribute to Chinese painting, Eileen Power's translation of a folk tale, and Arthur Waley on the philosophy of Zhuangzi and Huizi.Roger Fry's posthumous contribution - extracts from his published writings and unpublished Slade Lectures - was curated by his sister Margery Fry, who wished to acknowledge on her brother's behalf "the magnitude of the debt for the enrichment of our own lives which we of Western civilizations owe to the artists of China" (p. 29).

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