L. Newton Hayes, The Chinese Dragon
The cloud dragon in Hayes
Hayes identifies the medallion as the work of an artist who claimed to have seen a living dragon when young. The caption then places the image within a wider association between dragons and clouds, including a saying pairing dragons with clouds and tigers with wind. The picture records a conventional cloud-borne creature; the claimed encounter remains the artist’s reported experience within Hayes’s account.
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In the sources
The artist’s reported encounter
DocumentedThe caption attributes the image to an artist who reported a dragon sighting in Shantung.
Dragons and clouds
InterpretationHayes connects the cloud dragon with a traditional association between dragons and the formation of clouds.
Context & interpretation
The illustration and accompanying passage on the cited page of The Chinese Dragon.
Original passages
Source 1
The Chinese Dragon
A Cloud DragonOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Illustration and accompanying passage
Quotation and accompanying passage individually checked against the exact original page image. Line breaks and line-end hyphenation normalised. Caption small capitals normalised to title case.
- Edition
- IMJ-0474-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0474-E001-P0046
- Original scan leaf
- 50
- Recorded leaf number
- 50
- Current Reader position
- 41
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
