Excerpt from Pictures From the Land of Sina<br><br>To attempt the proper understanding of Chinese, or. Any other pictures, it should be borne in mind that drawing is as much an expression of the aspirations and emotions as speech or music. The psychology of a people is presented in their, art.<br><br>The Chinese is contemplative, introspective and highly imaginative; and to him, as to nearly all Orientals, man is unimportant in relation to the Cosmos.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.