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www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/documents/chinesenzbmoloughney.pdf Brian Moloughney
Stout seminar 12 March 2003
My title, ‘translating cultures’, refers to something that can be a very
difficult business, particularly, it seems, when it comes to an encounter such
as the one represented in this painting.
The painting is held in the pictorial collection of at the Hocken Library.
Linda Tyler, Curator of Pictorial Collections at the Hocken, introduced me
to it a number of years ago, but even though it is stored away in the Hocken
collection, it may be familiar to some of you as well because a reprint of it
appeared in the 1993 book by Sandra Coney about the centenary of women’s
suffrage Standing in the Sunshine. Coney uses it as the centre-piece for a
section of the book entitled 'Love and Affection'.
But she badly
misinterprets the painting. She tells us that it is a painting of the New
Zealand missionary George McNeur and his Chinese wife.
Stout seminar 12 March 2003
My title, ‘translating cultures’, refers to something that can be a very
difficult business, particularly, it seems, when it comes to an encounter such
as the one represented in this painting.
The painting is held in the pictorial collection of at the Hocken Library.
Linda Tyler, Curator of Pictorial Collections at the Hocken, introduced me
to it a number of years ago, but even though it is stored away in the Hocken
collection, it may be familiar to some of you as well because a reprint of it
appeared in the 1993 book by Sandra Coney about the centenary of women’s
suffrage Standing in the Sunshine. Coney uses it as the centre-piece for a
section of the book entitled 'Love and Affection'.
But she badly
misinterprets the painting. She tells us that it is a painting of the New
Zealand missionary George McNeur and his Chinese wife.