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Peering from their high critical bowers, historians maintain that Chinese art has been on the decline ever since 1368, when the Ming dynasty was founded. They describe the art which the Mings favored for almost 300 years as gaudy, flamboyant and imitative. To prove that "exuberance" and "respect for a classical past" are better words for the period, the Detroit Institute of Arts has staged a loan show of some 400 Ming items...
...northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove it. Gest impoverished himself supplying funds for Gillis, who had resigned his commission to devote full time to the collection. Gillis collected a library of Bibles written in 25 dialects, 20,000 books from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 500 volumes on Chinese medicine-the largest Oriental collection in the Western world. By the time the Japanese invasion of China put an end to Gillis' work, the Gest collection could boast a sampling of almost every type of Chinese literature...
With its overwhelming majority in Parliament, Canada's Liberal government can quickly smother discussion of any embarrassing subject. That seemed to be the Liberal strategy last week when the Tory opposition again raised the question of the Ming Sung Industrial Co. Flying the Canadian flag, Ming Sung's five ships sail regularly from Hong Kong and Macao to Communist China, despite Canada's support of the United Nations' strategic embargo against the Chinese Reds...
Major General George Pearkes, the Tories' military critic, read a telegram from the China Officers Guild at Hong Kong reporting that the Canadian-registered, Chinese-manned Ming Sung ships were loading war materials for Red China at Macao. Tory Leader George Drew demanded that the Canadian registry for the ships be withdrawn. Said Drew: "These ships . . . assist the enemy at a time when that enemy is sending its troops to fight our troops in Korea...
Liberals acknowledged that such valuable commodities as scrap iron and rubber tires for Red China were aboard the Ming Sung ships. But they excused the traffic as a minor affair, defended Ming Sung's Canadian registry as a protective device for Canadian investors and taxpayers, i.e., the banks who hold Ming Sung ship mortgages. Prime Minister St. Laurent flatly refused to withdraw the ships' Canadian charter. The Liberal majority, without a single defection from the ranks, voted down, 116 to 36, the Tory proposal to cancel the registry...