Its medieval houses and old umbrella-covered stalls surround a 14th-century fountain and a line of columns, one of which bears the lion of St. Mark, in former allegiance to Venice.
The lion of St. Mark is on one of the columns.
If anything, their book only makes things worse, says Orville Schell in the New York Times : Bernstein and Munro have unrepentantly plunged harpoons into the tenderest interstices of the Chinese-American relationship.