Condition: Acceptable. Former library book with markings. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
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Blurb: “Although Chiang Yee trained as a chemist at Nanking, and served as governor of four districts under the Chinese Nationalist regime, he came to discover that painting, rather than politics and chemistry, was his true interest. In 1933 he left China for England and began writing and illustrating books on Chinese paint-ing, calligraphy, poetry, and family life. He was also absorbing and analyzing his new surroundings, and during a holiday in England's lake district he wrote and illustrated The Silent Traveller in Lakeland, the first of his Silent Traveller books.
These books are much more than a casual record of places visited. As Sir Herbert Read has observed, Chiang Yee "is one of those rare foreigners who help us understand ourselves. He writes simply and clearly about matters which are subtle and difficult to understand... and has greatly extended our knowledge not only of Chinese civilization but of art and civilization in general."
Mr. Chiang, who teaches at Columbia University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. He was Phi Beta Kappa Orator at Harvard in 1956 and in 1958 was holder of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship of Poetry there. His paintings and calligraphy have been widely exhibited, and he has an international reputation as a lecturer.”