Beauty spreads across the sky

Author: Wu Jingya
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This is an era of an overflow of beauty. It is a pale era where beauty has lost its distinctiveness and authenticity: Beauty is rapidly fading at an alarming rate. Therefore, we celebrate them more: Women who exist with individuality and passion. They are not traditional beauties, full of flaws, even unworthy of their fate. But they have, and live elsewhere in the noisy world. They are always the other. Whether it is Soong May-ling, the esteemed "Mother of the Nation," or the legendary actress Hu Die, the genius writer Eileen Chang, or the contemporary ordinary woman Ai Su, their emotions and destinies are full of twists and turns, leaving one to sigh. The author's casual words reveal the novelty, sharpness, wisdom, and depth of her writing and thoughts. The works of Pang Maokun, a renowned young oil painter in China, professor and head of the Oil Painting Department at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, add special meaning to this book. This painter, known in China for expressing female themes, conveys his unique aesthetic of women and beauty through the lens of a man and the sensitivity of an artist.