Hedda MORRISON

The Drum Tower, thirty metres high, which helped protect the Forbidden City from malign influences. In imperial times a drum was beaten here at nightfall Hedda MORRISON Ch'i Pai Shih affixing his seal on a painting Hedda MORRISON Spinning silk floss into thread Hedda MORRISON The scroll mounters Hedda MORRISON Beating raw cotton to remove the dust and fibres Hedda MORRISON Beggar woman and her child. Over the years I often saw her and she was nearly always pregnant 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 Coal Hill, the artificial hill lying to the north of the Forbidden City Hedda MORRISON Duck farm below the city wall Hedda MORRISON No title (Pavilions at the northern end of Pei Hai) Hedda MORRISON No title (Two men in opium den) Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON No title 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 The stupa of the Yellow Temple which lay outside the north wall of Peking 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 Ch'i Pai Shih and his young family Hedda MORRISON No title (Buildings and moat, covered in snow) Hedda MORRISON A moon guitar 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 (The Forbidden City wall and moat) Hedda MORRISON No title (Boy in street) Hedda MORRISON Schoolboys under martial arts instruction. Traditional martial arts skills and acrobatics were preserved in the theatre and for popular entertainment Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON Repairing a painting prior to remounting, work calling for the most exacting skills Hedda MORRISON Planting out rice seedlings Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON The Forbidden City, view south from Coal Hill Hedda MORRISON