[…] she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.

The Seventies, that most directorial of decades.

I was pulled up by a male reader who had been a victim of domestic abuse, for using the word 'women' instead of 'victims'. He rightly pointed out that men are victims of abuse too.

The niche-figures and reliefs of the Jui-yun Pagoda at Fu-ch'ing date from the end of the Ming dynasty, as the tower was constructed between 1607 and 1615;⁴¹ these sculptures are amongst the best in the province. The bas-reliefs of Fu-ch'ing, some of which are full of expression (pl. 64a, b), point to a later period of Chinese plastic art, that of the porcelain statuettes produced at Tê-hua 德化 near Ch'uan-chou, and of the wood carvings of Fu-chou, which have flourished from the Ming era up to the present day.