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ID: 233
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Tribunal: China
DocumentNature: Photograph
Glass: Negative
Support: Paper
Mono: Monoscopic
Repository: Sturani
Color: Black and white
Caption: Vertical parallel inscription (duilian 對連) reads:
Chun feng daya neng rongwu 春風大雅能容物
Qiushui wenhua (?) bu ran chen 秋水文華(?)不染塵
Which could be translated:
Des vents printaniers la parfaite équité embrasse tous les êtres
Des eaux automnales la lettre limpide n’est pas polluée par la boue
Spring wings' largeness and equity embrace all beings
Autumn waters' scarlet letter is not polluted by dirt
Four Characters on the magistrate desk: Yueguang zhi da 月光之大 "Greatness of the Moonlight"
Topic: Judiciary
Description: Although a manifest ideal reconstitution after paintings, with strange, baroque, esthetic details (parallel inscriptions have no clear connection with judicial activity; characters are more illustrative of literati dandies than magistrates at work), this photograph has been taken as face value as a realistic view of Chinese court
Keyword: tribunal, court
Biography
1:Family_Name:
SAUNDERS William
Note(s): (?)
Related Replication (1)
1 Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Tribunals in China (litigants under court)
Information: A standard representation, generally opening watercolors album specialised in punihments. Traditional views, inspired from opera works, give shape slowly to modern, "realistic" representations.
Geolocation
Asia --> China
Derniére modification le : 2005-11-07 |
