Western pigments for Chinese palettes

It can be difficult for people outside of Asia to purchase paint for Chinese brush painting. While Marie's Chinese Watercolors are often available, their quality and age varies tremendously. I have found in the past that Maries paint is adequate and the price is so much cheaper that it does make sense for students. Locally Marie's is less than $1 (cheaper than Shanghai!!!) while Western watercolors are at least 10 times that. They are cheap enough you can take a chance on them if you can find them.

From my own experience and others the following Western colors are useful for Chinese brush painting, especially landscapes:
Daniel Smith Indigo
Daniel Smith Burnt Sienna
Daniel Smith New Gamboge
Holbein Antique Red Orange
Holbein Compose Green #2 - replaces traditional #3 green
Holbein Verditer Blue - replaces traditional #3 blue

Daniel Smith Indigo and Burnt Sienna work very well together, the indigo is much richer than the Maries Indigo. You can make some quite lovely paintings using just these two and ink.
Holbein Compose Green #2 and Verditer Blue mix well together and are very useful for traditional green and blue paintings.

I can't tell any difference between watercolors purchased in China and these other than quality, they both take to the paper in the same fashion and both can be traditionally wet mounted,

Jim