{"id":31346,"date":"2023-09-07T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31346"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:14:11","slug":"from-the-durant-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/07\/from-the-durant-10\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Our Oriental Heritage<\/em>, page 736:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In textiles and metalworking the craftsmen of China, during and after the Sung era, reached a degree of perfection never surpassed; in the cutting of jade and hard stones they went beyond all rivals anywhere; and in the carving of wood and ivory they were excelled only by their pupils in Japan.  Furniture was designed in a variety of unique and uncomfortable forms; cabinet-makers, living on one bowl of rice per day, sent forth one objet de vertu&#8211;one little piece of perfection&#8211;after another; and these minor products of a careful art, taking the place of expensive furniture and luxuries in homes, gave to their owners a pleasure which in the Occident only connoisseurs can know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting perspective, that the best craftsman should only earn a bowl of rice a day.  Sometimes, the old Socialist left gets a little dewy-eyed in its idealization of poverty and how men react to it.<\/p>\n<p>One also wonders if much has changed in modern China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Our Oriental Heritage, page 736: In textiles and metalworking the craftsmen of China, during and after the Sung era, reached a degree of perfection never surpassed; in the cutting of jade and hard stones they went beyond all rivals anywhere; and in the carving of wood and ivory they were excelled only by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31347,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346\/revisions\/31347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}