From: tanstaafl@pobox.com   
      
   On 12 Nov 2009 12:58:55 GMT, in rec.arts.manga, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers   
    wrote:   
      
   >"The History of the West Wing" is the graphic novel (Manhua, actually)   
   >adaptation of a classic Chinese play about the forbidden romance between   
   >the daughter of a government official and a roaming scholar. If you   
   >think you've heard that story a million times already: yeah, you   
   >probably have. And since this is a self-contained book with just 112   
   >pages, there's just not much room for complex story developments.   
   >   
   >However, despite the weak-ish story I still wholeheartedly recommend   
   >this book, because of the beautiful artwork. If you liked the art in   
   >"The Bride of the Water God", you'll like this one as well.   
      
   Read this last summer and I loved it: gave it a 9 out of 10 at   
   mangaupdates.com.  (Would have given it a 10 if it had been a bit longer   
   with a little more depth to the characters and their story.)   
      
   My description:   
      
   A handsome young wandering scholar falls in love with a beautiful young   
   noblewoman and strives to win her heart.   
      
   But there are other suitors for the girl, and her mother wants more for her   
   daughter's future than marriage to a wanderer with no means of support.   
      
   Will the young man win the girl's affections, succeed in bettering himself,   
   and gain the mother's approval and her daughter's hand?   
      
   Set in the China of several hundred years ago.   
      
   Beautifully illustrated in full color.   
      
   Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance   
      
   --   
   Nick      
      
   Sturgeon's Law: "Ninety percent of everything is crap."   
      
   Nick's Observation: "One person's ten percent is right smack dab in the   
   middle of somebody else's ninety percent."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)