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jot Chang Dai Chien{ 1 899-1 98}). Ten
Thoutand Mitts o/tht Ytngtse. Detail ofa
handscroll, showing the Mm River at
Kiun-hsien. Szcchwan. Ink and colour
on silk,

even their names are not known. The literati too were victims of
the growing paralysis of Ch'ing culture, and there were few out-
standing amateur painters. In the first half of the century, Tai Hsi
(1 801-1860) and Tang I-fen (1778— 1 853) were typically orthodox
followers of the academic literary style of Wang Hui. But after
mid-century there came a gradual change. The style of Jen I (Jen
Po-nien, 1 840-1 896), the most interesting of the late Ch'ing art-
ists, owed part of its vigour to an infusion from popular art, part
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