Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox

Author:Thomas Wallace Knox [Knox, Thomas Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, General
ISBN: 9781425566852
Google: 33UjPwAACAAJ
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: 2006-09-15T03:05:08+00:00

Illustration: THROUGH ORDINARY EYES

I was interested in studying the decorations on window screens and fans, and the various devices on the walls. The Chinese mind runs to the hideous in nearly everything fanciful, and most of its works of art abound in griffins and dragons. Even the portrait of a tiger or other wild beast is made to look worse than the most savage of his tribe. If there ever was a dog with a mouth such as the Chinese artists represent on their canines, he could walk down his own throat with very little difficulty.

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