Cathay: a journey in search of old ChinaAn exquisitely realized account of one man's pilgrimage in China's forbidden past. For Fergus Bordewich, entering the labyrinth that is China and finding vestiges of a rapidly vanishing world was the challenge of a lifetime, and his eye-opening revelations offer a China to tantalize the eye and the imagination. |
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... monk to get me tea. The monk's flushed face fairly quivered as he served the tea, pouring it into shallow bowls with an unexpected delicacy. But when I pushed the shutter to show the constable how the camera worked, the monk flew at me ...
... monk to get me tea. The monk's flushed face fairly quivered as he served the tea, pouring it into shallow bowls with an unexpected delicacy. But when I pushed the shutter to show the constable how the camera worked, the monk flew at me ...
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... monk's boat from departing. It was the engraving! The strange flower was of course Guanyin herself, and the figure on the leaf was the monk borne aloft by his devotions. The dreamy coast in the picture was the headland where we now sat ...
... monk's boat from departing. It was the engraving! The strange flower was of course Guanyin herself, and the figure on the leaf was the monk borne aloft by his devotions. The dreamy coast in the picture was the headland where we now sat ...
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... monk said, "When you leave Putuoshan and visit some other place in China, people look at you with awe. They think of you as Guanyin herself. You're so special to them! But it isn't that way." I asked the monk what had brought him to ...
... monk said, "When you leave Putuoshan and visit some other place in China, people look at you with awe. They think of you as Guanyin herself. You're so special to them! But it isn't that way." I asked the monk what had brought him to ...
Contents
CHAPTER THREE Vibrato | 49 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Mountain God | 143 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Ten Thousand Things | 167 |
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