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Image Number: 
Bookreader Chinese 411
Reference Number: 
Chinese Crawford 411
Parent Work Title: 
Jie xiao shi shi tu
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
節孝事實圖
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Illustrated True Stories of Female Chastity and Filiality
Creator: 
Xu Weiren, 1788-1855
Creator Role: 
Calligrapher
Date Created: 
1830
Publication Details: 
Shanghai [?]
Description: 
A collection of ink rubbings of stone inscriptions, pasted together in an accordian-style folding format. The original inscriptions were part of an ancestral shrine built in Shanghai in 1832, and are dated in sixth lunar month of the gengyin 庚寅 year of the Daoguang 道光 era [1830 CE]. The calligraphy was drawn by Xu Weiren 徐渭仁 (1788-1855.) The content of the inscriptions relates to values of filiality and chastity amongst women, which were important moral teachings found within didactic texts from this era.
Language: 
Chinese
Subject: 
Education
Category of Material: 
Printed
Technique Used: 
Rubbing (transferring techniques)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Item Height: 
308 mm
Item Width: 
167 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2018-09-13
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2018-10
Educational Notes: 
Chinese Educational Texts of the Late Qing Dynasty
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Academic Project Lead: 
Gregory Scott
Educational Notes: 
Qing: China's multilingual empire exhibition
Academic Project Lead: 
Julianne Simpson
Collection Code: 
Rylands