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<dl><dd><i>"This painting illustrates a moment from a short story entitled ‘Tale of the Curly-bearded Stranger’. In this tale, at the end of the brutal Sui dynasty in early seventh century China, three knights-errant lend their assistance to the future founders of the great Tang empire. Li Jing was a decorated warrior who wished to serve the Sui, but eloped with a beautiful assassin, known as Red Duster lady. She met and was deeply impressed by a knight-errant opposed to injustice, who went by the bizarre name of Curly-bearded Stranger. The three vow to overthrow the Sui. This painting portrays the conspirators at the end of the story, when the Curly-bearded Stranger gives the lovers all his money, and declares he must return to his kingdom far away."</i></dd></dl><dl><dd>—Chester Beatty Library</dd></dl></div>
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Ren Yi (1840–96)</div>
1880<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/Item.aspx?itemId=36">Three Knights in Wind and Dust</a>. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/">Telling Images of China</a></i> (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.<br><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/app_themes/exhibit/img/exhibits/large/img25.jpg">(direct link to image)</a><br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160427142833/http://www.cbl.ie/china/Item.aspx?itemId=36">(web archive link for work)</a><br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100220031809/http://www.cbl.ie/china/">(web archive link for exhibit)</a></small>