Tiger Hill Gateway, Suzhou

Sketches from the field

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June 20th 2010
Sometimes it feels as though the best way to smell the proverbial flowers is to simply sit down with a piece of paper and a pen. The first batch of drawings are from a early spring trip to Suzhou, just down-stream from Yangzhou on the Yangtzi River. The city is famous for three things - silk, gardens, and of course beautiful women. My interests, at least with pen and paper, lie in the garde ... read more

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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