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TRAVEL NOTES
| At the home of
Meng Xian Ao, China's foremost calligrapher Guangzhou, China, 28 May 1997 |
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Meng's wife, Basheer, Sukran, Meng, me. The artwork in the middle is a female dragon (or is it male?) which Sukran ended up buying. |
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Meng Xian Ao Member & Calligrapher of China Talent Research Institute and Artist Learned Committee General Director of China International Culture and Art Center Guangzhou tel: 4222922, 4219616-2251, |
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The dragon again, male or female. |
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Meng, Sukran, Deng Deng is our guide and translator; the artist is Deng's uncle. |
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Said to be Mao Zedong's favorite poem |
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The Master at work. It was impressive to watch his trance-like concentration and the dizzying speed of his brush strokes. He completed this piece in a few seconds. He was exhausted after it. |
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