In the same year that Columbus discovered the New World, a painter named Ch'iu Ying put the finishing touches on a little world of his own. Last week Ch'iu's world, a 30-ft. silk scroll, was seen for the first time in the U.S. when it was unrolled at Southern California's Pomona College. It proved to be one of the real treasures of the. Ming Dynasty. The property of a Chinese collector who kept it in his home, it was first put on public exhibition in Nanking three years ago, where George C, Marshall, on his mission to China, was one of...
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