Toutai of Shanghai,Chinese judge,China,holding pipe,attendant,1870-1872

Title: Toutai of Shanghai
Creator(s): Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921, photographer
Date Created/Published: [between 1870 and 1872]
Summary: Photograph shows a Chinese judge of Shanghai, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, holding pipe, with attendant next to him.
Notes:
Title from front and back of item.
Caption on back : 'Toutai of Shanghai. The Chief Mandarin of Magisirate [i.e., magistrate] or Shanghai, although scarely more than a puppet, and maintaining merely a show of authority as a representative of the master he serves is still the highest Chinese dignitary with whom foreigners have communication, and it it not often that a photograph can be obtained of so high an offidial [i.e., official]. His every day dress except perhaps in fineness of material, does not seem to be different from that worn by the superior classes of merchants, &c., and the only distinctive mark is the button on the cap. There is in fact no landed nobility in China, as the soil of the whole Empire is supposed to belong to the Emperor and titles are only conferred for distinguished services These titles are Koung Hen Phee Tze Wan and correspond to those of Duke, Marquis, Count, Baron, Chevalier or Baronet in Europe and are not hereditary.'
Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009)
In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [p. 47, lower right].
Subjects:
Judges--China--Shanghai--1870-1880.
Albumen prints--Hand-colored--1870-1880.
Group portraits--1870-1880.
Portrait photographs--1870-1880.
Bookmark /2011660137/
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