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Also yes, in Yanna's baby view, the crawdad is miku'd. YOU CANNOT STOP ME.

What happens when an Italian missionary picks up a copper plate and tries to hold a Chinese landscape inside European lines? Matteo Ripa's "View of a Part of the Imperial Summer Palace in Chengde (Jehol), China" is that collision made visible. Sunlight falls in ruled diagonals from the upper left - neat, geometric, Baroque - onto a scene that resists every impulse behind those parallel hatches. The pavilion on stilts floats above still water with upswept rooflines that curve like breath. Pine branches scatter across the foreground like calligraphy strokes trapped inside a grid. Birds drift in loose clusters above mountain ridges that recede in soft greys, and two waterfowl sit motionless on glass-flat water. The whole thing hums with a tension it never resolves. Ripa was a Neapolitan priest at the Kangxi Emperor's court in the early 1700s, commissioned to engrave 36 views of the imperial retreat at Chengde. He carried European intaglio technique into shanshui territory - and neither tradition won. The monochrome palette reads like ink wash, but the method is copper and burin. The mountains want to dissolve into mist the way Chinese painting demands, but the hatching won't let them. Every mark is a negotiation between two ways of seeing. He brought his plates back to Naples in 1724, where they were reprinted for decades. Now in the Rijksmuseum, far from both Rome and Chengde. Belonging fully to neither shore. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

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“Directs Japan’s Drive,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 23, 1933. Page 1. ---- LIEUT. GEN. KUNIAKI KOISO Who is said to be the directing genius of the Japanese drive into Jehol province. He is reported to have expressed the opinion that it would take two or three years to suppress banditry and bring real peace into the province.

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“As Japs Advance on Jehol Capital,” Moncton Daily Times. March 17, 1933. Page 1. ---- Somewhat reminiscent of an old picture of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow is this picture from the scene of Japan's operations in the Jehol Province But the Japs are not retreating. On the contrary, when this picture was made, the invaders were pushing on towards Jehol City, capital of the province, which fell into their hands after a half-hearted resistance. Sub-zero temperatures slowed advance.

- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. February 17, 1933. Page 7.