China and the West

Letter from Ezra Pound to George Santayana ; Rapallo, 16 January (1940).
Chinese saying 'a man's character apparent in every one of his brush storkes'. Early characters were pictures, squared for aesthetic reasons. But I think in a sell-brushed ideogram the sun is seen to be rising. The east is a convention ; the west ideogram hasn't the sun in it. Not sure whether it may be sheepfold (this guess). One ideogramic current is from picture often of process, then it is tied to, associated with one of a dozen meanings by convention. Whole process of primitive association, but quite arbitrary, as : two men, city, night = theft.
Not the picturesque element I was trying to emphasize so much as the pt. re western man 'defining' by receding : red, color, vibration, mode of being, etc. ; Chinese by putting together concrete objects as in F's [Fenollosa] example : red – cherry ; iron rust – flamingo.