half-mongol

Updated: June 12, 2025

The imagists, Ezra Pound in particular, were Chinese long before they discovered Cathay in the works of Ernest Fennellosa. And in music, certainly, the East is on us; has been on us since the Russian five began their careers and expressed their own half-European, half-Mongol, natures.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

It would be quite in the modern style, this way of assuring the safety of the trains during the run through the Celestial Empire. Anyhow, there is one of these highwaymen, who has retained his independence and liberty of action, a certain Ki-Tsang." "Who is he?" "A bold bandit chief, half-Chinaman, half-Mongol.

Jules Verne - The Adventures of a Special Correspondent