Late in the eighteenth and early in the nineteenth century, Lin Yan-ken selected merchandise for J. S. Waln. Amber, alumroot, beeswax, and cassia lignea. Cinnabar, chinaware, chessmen carved from ivory tusks, and an elbowchair of rosewood. Embroidered fans, grass cloth, ginger in earthen pots. Hemp and indigo. Jute, kaolin, also lily flowers. Musk, nankeens, orpiment, a miniature pagoda of silver, and medicinal rhubarb. Packets of seeds of the melon and of the apricot. Teas, both green and black. Umbrellas, vases, and wall papers with scenes from Chinese life. Writer’s ink and xanthein.
An edition of The house of exile
(1933)
The House of exile
by Nora Waln
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added by Shay Simmons.
This evocative opening paragraph sets the stage for a memoir of the author's residence with an aristocratic Chinese family in the first part of the 20th century.
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