If anyone could produce a huge bowl filled to the brim with water from out of an empty cloth and then from the bowl, pull out a little child; it ought to be Ching Ling Foo 金陵福. Ching Ling Foo's name may not ring a bell but then the Beijing-born man was a renowned magician credited as the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame. Born in 1854, the magician passed away in 1922 at the age of 69. His act reportedly was copied by a New York-born magician, William Robinson who went to the extent of dressing up like a Chinese and claiming to be one. William Robinson went by the stage name of Chung Ling Soo 程連蘇.
Who do you think is the real Ching Ling Foo?
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