[261] The clay image makers of Tientsin are wonderfully clever in taking likenesses by these means. Some of the most skilful will even manipulate the clay behind their backs, and then, adding the proper colours, will succeed in producing an exceedingly good resemblance. They find, however, more difficulty with foreign faces, to which they are less accustomed in the trade.
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[262] See No. LXI., [note 346].
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[263] See No. LXIV., [note 18].
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[264] Such is the officially authorised method of determining a doubtful relationship between a dead parent and a living child, substituting a bone for the clay image here mentioned.
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[265] “In various savage superstitions the minute resemblance of soul to body is forcibly stated.”—Myths and Myth-makers, by John Fiske, p. 228.
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[266] An important point in Chinese etiquette. It is not considered polite for a person in a sitting position to address an equal who is standing.
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[267] By becoming his son and behaving badly to him. See No. CX., [note 190], and the text to which it refers.
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[268] See No. CXXXI., [note 250].
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[269] The story is intended as a satire on those puffed-up dignitaries who cannot even go to a picnic without all the retinue belonging to their particular rank. See No. LVI., [note 315].
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[270] See No. XXIII., [note 152].
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