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Chinese Painting and a Wandering Waiguo Ren

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September 29th 2009
In addition to my Chinese classes, I started going to an optional Chinese painting class (Zhong Guo Hua’r Ke) once a week. Essentially, I go and listen to an old Chinese teacher/painter talk in mumbled Chinese for about 45 minutes, as he demonstrates painting something, then we make an effort to do it ourselves for 45 minutes. Apparently, today he was talking about how we swirl our wrist to make ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more