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From left to right : 1. fTiang Po, uncle of Htang Yu. 2. Fan Tseng, councillor of Hiang Yu. 3. Htang-Yu, pretender to the Chinese throne. 4. Hiang Chouang, general of Hiang Yu 5. Liou Pang, rival of Hiang-Yu and future founder of the Han Dynasty. 6. Fan K'oitat, general of Liou Pang. 7. and 8. Chang Leang and K'ing Hi, councillors of Liou Pang. Fan Tseng, counthe camp of Hiang Yu at Hong nieng. The two pretenders to the Chinese throne meet cillor of Hiang Yu, introduces Hiang Chouang into the camp to dance a military dance during which he is to Fan K'ouai arrives in time to save his master. assassinate Liou Pang.

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6.

— The

Temple

of Pa-cha.

Kong (red and black make-up), ravisher of beautiful T'len Pa, chief of the police of Sheu Pou Ts'iuan.

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Wang

7.

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A Bee

women going

to the

temple, abducts the

wife

trap.

From left to right 1. Shen-shen, eldest son and titular heir of Duke Hien of Tsing. 2. Li Ki, concubine Duke Hien. 3. Luke Hien. 4. Yeou Sheu, eunuch of the duke and accomplice of Li Ki. This is how Li Ki successfully plots to have Shen-shen disinherited in favour of her own son. One day Li Ki sends a message to Shen-shen telling him that the duke is waiting for him in the park. Shen-shen, going to the appointed spot, finds Li Ki with a swarm of bees humming about her head, attracted by the scent of the mass of flowers in her hair. He naturally goes to help her, driving away the insects with his wide sleeves. :

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Meanwhile

the eunuch Yeou Sheu, accomplice of Li Ki, has invited the duke to follow him onto a terrace, where he shows him Shen-shen apparently embracing Li Ki. The latter presently arrives with swollen face and tearful eyes, and the indignant duke, his suspicions thus confirmed, places his son in disgrace.

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right

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aide-df-caiiif of Siii

fortress of Tii-Mu.

Jin

Koitei. 2.

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Chinese general.

3.

X'gan T'len Pao, a bar-

barian general.

The picture shows General

Siit

Jen

The

Koitei killing his adversary General

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and the voung,

tlie vouii"'

and

Ngan

T'len Pao.

tlie old.

a comic play dating from the period of the T'ai p'lng rising. It appears that the latter ravished their passage and, placing them in sacks, sold them all at the same price. The buyer there fore had no choice to make, but had to rely on luck. However, sly buyers, all desiring to obtain a young and pretty woman, tried to judge the women by their voices and to this effect pinched their arms in order to make them cry out. The result was, however, so uncertain that the engraving represents a buyer who finds he has bought his own mother while another has bought his daughter-in-law. This

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women on

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2.

From left Chau Yun,

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and

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to

right

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The return

to K'ing-Cheou of Liou Pei

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his wife.

of the last of the Han emperors and future sovereign of the Shoo. servant. 4. The ivife of Liou Pei, sister of Souen K'iuan. 5. .4 servant,

Liou Pei, uncle

general of Liou Pei.

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Siu Cheng and Ting Fong, generals

of

Souen K'iuan.

Liou Pei has kept for himself the with the army of Souen K'iuan, chief his country, where

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ivhole of the land of King-Tcheou whic/i had been conquered in The latter is very angry and tells him to of the land of Woo. he wishes to give him his sister in marriage. This is merely a trap in order to

conunon come to capture

him and claim King Cheou. Liou Pei arrives and the marriage actually takes place owing to the intervention But the return to King-Cheou is no easy matter and Liou Pei and his wife of the mother of Souen K'iuan. Their departure is betrayed to Souen K'iuan, who sends two generals after them to have to carry it out in secret. bring thein back. But the sister of Souen K'iuan has sufficient aiithnrity over her brother's officers to intimidate them, and she and her husband are able to escape.

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