Translation is given as: 'Despotic officials and shyster underofficials, may they feel ashamed!'
She saw it on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It dates to the time of the Monghol Khans. The man who wrote it, Yelu Chucai, was a Chinese survivor of Ghenghis Khan's seige of Beijing. He submitted to Monghol authority and became the Khan's soothsayer, and later Prime Minister of northern China under the Monghols.
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