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Solace In Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century Espionage & secret services And the children and theThis richly illustrated volume features expressive paintings by three East Asian and Asian American painters whose lives were fundamentally shaped by the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Internationally recognized Hong Kong artist, Chao Shao an, shaped modernist approaches to Chinese ink painting. Through the metaphorical subjects of bird and flower paintings, he ruminated on events from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 to the return of