4to. Unpaginated, with color plates with accompanying autobiographical/poetical text on facing page of many plates. Bilingual: English and Chinese: First Edition, 1983. Green decorative boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, Deep-blue and gilt endpapers with black lettering. ``Known for the tranquility and softness of his paintings and drawings, he considers no division between his two creative talents: painting and writing poetry. He says, 'We Chinese value beauty in aesthetic terms, as we value peace, tranquility, purity, harmony, innocence, simplicity, humility, love, joy--the qualities of the heart that artists express in their work'. His talents once drew the praise of the late Pearl S. Buck, whot wrote, 'The adjustments of an artist to his environment is the result of the growth and development of the man himself, expressed through his art. Chen Chi and his work remains Chinese in its technique. H does not, however, find his subjects or inspiration in the past. He lives in the present and in spine of the inherent delicacy of his medium, he is able to present with amazing power the elemental forces of nature ... the Asian influence in Chi's work is always to be found in his persistent search for the essential meaning" from the lais-in Essay by Raymond J. Steiner. - from Amzon