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Show The Yellow woria. It Is easy to see why China's imperial im-perial color is yellow, writes a correspondent cor-respondent from Yangste river. Her rivers are yellow, her long plains are yellow especially In a famine year such as this, and as for her seas the boundaries of her world so desert-yellow desert-yellow is their color that a string of camels crossing them would look more In keeping than a string of junks. And so one can understand why the very heart of the heart of China, the Imperial city, should lie like a shimmering shim-mering lake of golden tiles within her lotus-besieged walls. Even against the evidence of my own eyes I cannot believe be-lieve that the Great Wall Is built of solid ordinary stones laid one upon the other. Rather it seems moulded out of the stuff of which the mountains themselves were made, long ago when the world was plastic and empty of all save possibilities. There never was so sinuous a thing as the Great Wall built by men, I think, so sinuous and so aspiring. |