The Maritime Vision of Lai Sung In the bustling ports of the Qing dynasty, where the salt air met the heavy scent of trade, Lai Sung captured the movement of the sea. He was a painter of the waters, a man whose brush was attuned to the rhythm of the tides and the silhouettes of great vessels. His life was lived in the shadow of the nineteenth century, a time when the horizon was constantly shifting under the weight of foreign sails and…