{"id":148,"date":"2020-04-22T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/?p=148"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:05:41","slug":"punishment-of-the-tcha-or-cangue-ting-hai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/punishment-of-the-tcha-or-cangue-ting-hai\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishment of the Tcha, or Cangue, Ting-hai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.15.1_1-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.15.1_1-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.15.1_1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.15.1_1-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Thomas Allom (British, 1804-1873) <br>Engraved by J.B. Allen (British, 1803\u20131876) <br><em>Punishment of the Tcha, or Cangue, Ting-hai<\/em>, 1850 <br>Hand-colored engraving on paper <br>Private Collection <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Allom\u2019s topographical images were used to illustrate many travel books in the 19th century. After the first Opium War, the forced opening of China\u2019s interior allowed Westerners to travel to places inside China they had never seen. This image offers Western viewers an image of the Dinghai district of Zhoushan, an island off the coast of Zhejiang Province near the new treaty port of Ningbo. It also reflects a British understanding of China\u2019s legal system. This focus on punishment occurs in several of Allom\u2019s images, acting as a stand-in for the British dominance of China in the war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Thomas Allom\u2019s topographical images were used to illustrate many travel books in the 19th century. After the first Opium War, the forced opening of China\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/punishment-of-the-tcha-or-cangue-ting-hai\/\" title=\"Punishment of the Tcha, or Cangue, Ting-hai\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}