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Rethinking Empress Dowager Cixi through the Production of Art

In: NAN NÜ
Authors:
Li Yuhang
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Harriet T. Zurndorfer
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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2012
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This essay commences with an overview of recent revisionist scholarship about Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) who in her lifetime and thereafter gained a reputation as a formidable opponent of the modernization process in late Qing China. It reviews both past and present studies about the Empress’s political behavior, considers her changing image in more recent historical writing in and outside China, and then focuses on her interest in art and material culture. Discussion of the Empress’s involvement in drama, garden and palace decoration, fashion, and photography introduces the four articles in this journal issue.

Title:
Rethinking Empress Dowager Cixi through the Production of Art
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/156853212X651960
Language:
English
Pages:
1–20
Keywords:
Empress Dowager Cixi; new Qing history; Qing drama; Qing garden and palace decoration; fashion; photography
In:
NAN NÜ
In:
Volume 14: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5268
Print ISSN:
1387-6805
Subjects:
China, Asian Studies, Central Asia, Gender Studies, Criticism & Theory, Literature and Cultural Studies

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