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Watering radishes by hand Hedda MORRISON T'ai Ho Tien, the first of three great halls of state which constituted the nucleus of the Forbidden City, as seen from T'ai Ho Men Hedda MORRISON No title (Street procession with people carrying puppets) Hedda MORRISON No title (Boy at street market) Hedda MORRISON Spirit wall by Nan Hai Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON Wang Ch'ing Fang, another gifted artist. He painted landscapes in a style that was a break from tradition. Art was his vocation but he supported his family by teaching Hedda MORRISON No title (Buildings and moat, covered in snow) Hedda MORRISON Ch'ien Men, the central southern gate of the Tartar City, taken from near the railway station. The small horse-drawn cabs were rarely to be seen in the latter years of my stay in Peking Hedda MORRISON Ch'i Pai Shih (1863-1957), the distinguished painter and calligrapher, at work in his studio. He specialized in painting flowers and aquatic life, especially crabs and prawns Hedda MORRISON The New Year Fair at Liu Li Ch'ang was of special importance for the sale of paintings and other works of art Hedda MORRISON No title (Pavilions at the northern end of Pei Hai) Hedda MORRISON Ch'i Pai Shih and his young family Hedda MORRISON Duck farm below the city wall Hedda MORRISON Fa Hai Ssu (The Law Ocean Temple), a small temple in the Western Hills which was remarkable for its Ming frescos still in excellent state of preservation. The walls on which they had been painted were always in near darkness Hedda MORRISON The stupa of the Yellow Temple which lay outside the north wall of Peking Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON Beggar woman and her child. Over the years I often saw her and she was nearly always pregnant Hedda MORRISON Coal Hill, the artificial hill lying to the north of the Forbidden City Hedda MORRISON Beating raw cotton to remove the dust and fibres Hedda MORRISON No title (Two men in opium den) Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON One of the large carved marble slabs over which the emperor was carried during his visits to the Temple of the Imperial Ancestors Hedda MORRISON No title (Craftsperson) Hedda MORRISON No title (Crafting an instrument) Hedda MORRISON Pewter was used in the manufacture of many household utensils Hedda MORRISON Itinerant refreshment stall for children. Wherever there might be a demand, there would be some specialist hawker filling the needs of even the smallest customer Hedda MORRISON No title (Boy in street) Hedda MORRISON Repairing a painting prior to remounting, work calling for the most exacting skills Hedda MORRISON Planting out rice seedlings Hedda MORRISON