#StateThinking: Beijing vs Shanghai. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc

Photo:  A Chinese judge of Shanghai, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, holding pipe, with attendant next to him.  Caption on back : "Toutai of Shanghai. The Chief Mandarin, or Magistrate, of Shanghai, although scarcely 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 official. His everyday 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 conferred only for distinguished services 

#StateThinking: Beijing vs Shanghai. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.