Chapters from a Floating Life
- Editore:
SILK PAGODA
- Traduttore:
- Black Shirley
- EAN:
9781596543829
- ISBN:
1596543825
- Pagine:
- 112
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Chapters from a Floating Life
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE ARTIST Shen Fu, writer and painter, who was a native of Soochow, was born in 1763 and died sometime alter 1809. His father was by profession a secretary to magistrates, and Shen Fu was apprenticed in the same profession. Shen held various posts as a secretary, but he also worked by turns as a teacher and merchant. Although he had a studio in Soochow for a time he found that he could not make a living out of his paintings and for much of his life was miserably poor. He was sustained by his beloved wife Ch'en Yun, who died in 1803 after twenty-three years of marriage, and he movingly commemorates their mutual devotion in his enchanting biography.
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