Found in Chapter Two of    "   Six Chapters of a Floating Life. "

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 Six Chapters of a Floating Life - Chapter Two - The Little Pleasures of Life

and scroll down to the paragraph commencing........

" When arranging miniature sceneries with flowers and stones in a pot......"

                      [ penjing ]

then scroll down further to the paragraph commencing........

" As to the planning of garden pavilions, towers, winding corridors and out-houses, the designing of rockery and the training of flower-trees......."

                      [ China & Chinese Gardens ]

" The little one himself, will become a thousand

         and the small one, a mighty nation."

These words scribed around 730 years, Before Common Era.

To background this wonderful work in Chinese history.......

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 Mime of Mime - Mime Touch Theatre - Fringe Mime & Movement Laboratory

                           Artist  Philip Fok

Prologue                   Synopsis                  Gallery

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                 Six Chapters of a Floating Life

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         Comprehensive Book Review & How to source the 1983 translation.

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        Chinese-English 2006 version