Atlas plate · Qing China, late 18th century
Six Records
A failed clerk and a woman who arranged flowers write an ordinary Chinese marriage: jokes, pawned hairpins, shared moonlight, and the days after she is gone. Two of the six records are lost.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Yangzhou
Between
the space between them
Toward
Suzhou
Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.
- From
- Yangzhou, Jiangsu
- Toward
- Suzhou, Jiangsu
- Distance
- 165 km