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Manchucka

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Comics about China earthquake

June 19, 2008 2:09pm

Brilliant and moving.
We've got a clearinghouse of links and interesting reads about the earthquake, the response, and the coverage here: http://esinophile.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/chengdu-earthquake/

What did I plant in my vegetable garden, part 2

June 10, 2008 4:26pm

Definitely Nicotiana sp. Be careful to not ingest or smoke it--they can be lethally high in nicotine. Beautiful though.
-manchucka http://esinophile.wordpress.com/

The punishments of China: 1804 book

January 4, 2008 4:49pm

The top of the piece reads:

兩廣部堂

"Hall of the department of the two Guangs," which refers to a prefectural administrator of relatively high rank during the Qing dynasty. The "two Guangs" refers to Guangdong (Canton) and Guangxi in southern China.

The above readers are right that the sides appear to explain the crime. The right begins with 吾, an old word for "I". I can see the following characters after 吾:
惡, 土, 名, 律, 號, 示, 象. The are clearly written by a non-native writer.

I think it must say something along the lines of: "Having wronged....I am made to where this as a sign of..."

Any Ming legal specialists out there to clarify this?

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