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This painting depicts a lotus blossom in a pool. The title of this work originates from a famous Chinese prose sentence: "香远益清，亭亭净植" ("Fragrant from afar, increasingly pure; upright and untainted"), which poetically conveys the lotus's elegance and…

This painting is inspired by a serious work by a Korean painter (active in the Joseon dynasty). The original work Orchids and Rocks by Yi Ha-eung is housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Three stone tablets of the Wenxian Covenant Texts in color, enhanced to increase legibility of the script. These three examples include a variant form of the character used to denote the name of the spirit called on to sanction the covenants

A bank note from the Watkins National Bank promising payment of $5,000

This widescreen epic was produced at the height of the Cold War referring to the failed Mongol invasion as a metaphor for the threat of communism and reified an idealized image of Japan as historically resisting aggression from the Chinese mainland.

The Chinese painting was shown in a 1925 exhibition in Kyoto

A historical novel dealing with ethnic violence in Kenya in the early 1990’s. Two friends of different ethnic groups find themselves involved in a tribal conflict against their will and struggle to preserve their friendship.

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