第一百六十三篇第一百六十三篇Story One Hundred and Sixty-Three

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Story One Hundred and Sixty-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Clay Scholar

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: inside a poor farmhouse bedroom at night, a young farmer holding a cudgel bends forward to stare at a shattered clay robe on the brick floor, while his old mother at the open doorway raises a burning bundle of kindling and his young wife sits on the edge of the bed with a hand at her collar, beside a table holding a clay cap and an empty clothes rack.