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Bìa sách With the Empress Dowager of China

With the Empress Dowager of China

Katharine A. Carl

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A female painter becomes the court artist of the Empress Dowager of China.

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  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Introductory
  4. I: My Presentation and First Day at the Chinese Court
  5. II: Personal Appearance of Her Majesty—A Chinese Repast—Boating
  6. III: The Palace of the Emperor’s Father (Prince Ch’un, the Seventh Prince)
  7. IV: Her Majesty’s Throne-Room—Some Personal Characteristics
  8. V: The Young Empress and Ladies of the Court
  9. VI: Continuation of the Portrait—Her Majesty’s Dogs
  10. VII: Festivities at Court
  11. VIII: His Majesty the Emperor Kwang-Hsu
  12. IX: The Emperor’s Birthday
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  1. X: Peking—The Sea Palace
  2. XI: Some Characteristics of Her Majesty—Second Visit to the Sea Palace
  3. XII: Return to the Summer Palace
  4. XIII: The Steam-Launch—Semiannual Sacrifices to Confucius
  5. XIV: The Palace Eunuchs
  6. XV: The Literary Tastes and Accomplishments of the Empress Dowager
  7. XVI: The Great Audience Hall—Some Official Customs
  8. XVII: The Summer Palace and Its Grounds
  9. XVIII: The Festival of the Harvest Moon—Work on the Portrait
  10. XIX: A Garden Party at the Summer Palace
  11. XX: I Begin a Second Portrait of Her Majesty—The Palace Painters
  12. XXI: A European Circus at the Palace
  13. XXII: Palace Customs
  14. XXIII: Her Majesty’s Anxiety—Her Birthday
  15. XXIV: The Winter Palace
  16. XXV: Peking—Beginning the Portrait for St. Louis
  17. XXVI: Some Social Customs—Manchu and Chinese
  18. XXVII: Present-Giving in China
  19. XXVIII: Some Winter Days at the Palace
  20. XXIX: Religious Rites in China
  21. XXX: Her Majesty the Empress Dowager
  22. XXXI: The Empress Dowager’s Charities, Sense of Justice, Extravagance, and Personal Characteristics
  23. XXXII: The Chinese New Year—Official Audience
  24. XXXIII: Continuation of the St. Louis Portrait—Spring Days at the Sea Palace
  25. XXXIV: Finishing and Sending Off the Portrait
  26. XXXV: Return to the Summer Palace
  27. List of Illustrations
  28. Endnotes
  29. Colophon
  30. Uncopyright

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