Drawing class in a deaf-mute school near Beijing (255 children taught by twenty-seven professors to use the deaf-mute alphabet and to read lips). The reproduction of a classical Greek head is typical of the style of art being taught in China today, in its effort to emulate the West. However, originality in the creative arts is not considered essential. An excellent copy is considered as good as the original, for everything in Chinese culture has been expressed thousands of years ago.