第二百四十篇第二百四十篇Story Two Hundred and Forty

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Story Two Hundred and Forty · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Bureau for Examining Abuses

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in the paved front courtyard of a government hall, a hunched, comically ugly old official in a rank robe bows with clasped hands at the foot of the steps, while a pale young scholar leans back with hands raised in alarm and a thin scholar behind him holds his sleeve, between two tall stone tablets and before a pillared hall with pines behind.