Zhao Mengfu

Zhao Mengfu

Miss Cui was an elegant calligrapher and an accomplished writer. Yet though Zhang constantly requested to see specimens of her work, he never succeeded in doing so. Sometimes he would try to provoke her into discussing it by showing her things that he had written himself; but she read them cursorily and without much attention. She was a person who demanded of herself the highest standard of excellence in all that she undertook, but who would yet betray no outward sign of knowing anything about it. Her conversation was lively and intelligent, yet she lacked small talk. And though ...