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Journal articles on the topic "Empress Dowager Cixi"

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Yuhang, Li. "Oneself as a Female Deity: Representations of Empress Dowager Cixi as Guanyin." Nan Nü 14, no. 1 (2012): 75–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853212x651997.

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This paper discusses the practice of Empress Dowager Cixi’s embodiment of Guanyin, the most influential female deity in China. Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), the ruling monarch of Qing China, embodied this deity via different media such as painting, fashion, and photographs. This study demonstrates both the religious and historical consequences of Cixi’s particular vision of herself as Guanyin. It explains how Cixi combined theatricality with religiosity in different media and how she fashioned herself in both roles simultaneously as Guanyin and ruling empress Cixi.
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Yuhang, Li, and Harriet T. Zurndorfer. "Rethinking Empress Dowager Cixi through the Production of Art." Nan Nü 14, no. 1 (2012): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853212x651960.

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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.
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Chen, Liana. "The Empress Dowager as Dramaturg: Reinventing Late-Qing Court Theatre." Nan Nü 14, no. 1 (2012): 21–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853212x651979.

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This study argues against the common perception that the Qing court theatre was a closed cultural institution. It suggests that this theatre developed in conjunction with popular performance traditions outside the court that were stimulated by Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). Through close readings of a set of ceremonial dramas (yidian xi) commissioned by the Empress for the birthday celebrations of imperial family members, this essay explores the aesthetic transition from ritual to entertainment in this particular genre. It shows how as Empress Dowager Cixi indulged in her personal fantasies, the court theatre altered. These new plays initiated a paradigm shift from choreographed pageantry to an actor-centered stage, and as such indicate Cixi’s important role in the transformation of ceremonial court theatre.
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Wang, Cheng-hua. "“Going Public”: Portraits of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Circa 1904." Nan Nü 14, no. 1 (2012): 119–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853212x652004.

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Through an examination of both oil portraits and photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), this essay explores the visibility and publicity of portraits of political figures in the last years of China’s imperial history. There are two main issues of concern here. First, the essay discusses how Cixi assumed the role as head of the ‘Great Qing State’ in international diplomacy and politics by using portraits of herself as a public representative to construct a coherent image of her own. Second, the study investigates a new form of political self-fashioning that centered on portraiture, and that emerged in public space in the forms of publication and exhibition. This self-fashioning was tested in public space, which was now conducive to the formation of public opinion, the manipulation of which did not always lie in the hands of political figures such as Cixi.
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Lee, Young-Ok. "Empress Dowager Cixi(慈禧太后)'s Birthday Banquet." History & the World 47 (June 30, 2015): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17857/hw.2015.06.47.57.

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Chan, Ying-kit. "A Precious Mirror for Governing the Peace: A Primer for Empress Dowager Cixi." Nan Nü 17, no. 2 (March 24, 2015): 214–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00172p02.

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The vilified Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) of late Qing China remains a symbol of national humiliation and weakness in modern Chinese historiography. Scholars attribute Cixi’s “rule behind the curtains” responsible for the ultimate decline of the Qing dynasty and its capitulatory peace with foreign powers. This article revisits the conditions that enabled Cixi’s rise to power during the Tongzhi reign (1861–75) and argues that Hanlin academicians regarded her as a potentially capable regent upon whom they could count to manage state affairs in the best interests of the Tongzhi emperor. This article also argues that Cixi acquired her political vocabulary from her Hanlin lecturers who compiled a unique primer for their patroness – the Zhiping baojian (A precious mirror for governing the peace) – on female regency in China’s imperial past.
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Barish, Daniel. "Empress Dowager Cixi’s Imperial Pedagogy: The School for Female Nobles and New Visions of Authority in Early Twentieth Century China." Nan Nü 20, no. 2 (January 8, 2019): 256–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00202p04.

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AbstractAfter the 1861 coup that brought her to power, Empress Dowager Cixi mobilized a variety of traditions of imperial education to cultivate the persona of a classical ruler and cement her place at the center of Qing governance. At the turn of the twentieth century, however, her enemies launched a propaganda campaign that portrayed Cixi not as a legitimate ruler but as the enemy of progress. In response, Cixi herself began a project to refashion the Qing throne, placing new institutions of imperial education for women at the center of efforts to reestablish her domestic authority and reclaim the Qing’s international standing. After reviewing Cixi’s strategies of legitimation from 1861 to 1898, this paper focuses on the Empress’s twentieth-century attempt to construct an educational apparatus to invent and train a group of female nobles who were intended to play a leading role in reforms around the country. In advocating for the role of these women and institutions, Cixi placed herself and a cosmopolitan cohort of women at the center of plans for China’s future. This future was predicated on a refashioned Qing imperial ideology that grounded the legitimacy of the state in part in its participation in global norms and practices of governance. Although the future Cixi imagined for herself and the Qing never materialized, an examination of the project helps shed new light on the politics and culture of the late Qing and beyond.
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Peng, Ying-chen. "A Palace of Her Own: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) and the Reconstruction of the Wanchun Yuan." Nan Nü 14, no. 1 (2012): 47–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853212x651988.

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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is one of the most significant and controversial political figures in modern Chinese history, yet her comprehensive engagement with court art, a symbolic realm of sovereignty in China, remains understudied and is therefore deserving of close analysis. To examine her patronage of art, this paper scrutinizes Cixi’s involvement in the Wanchun yuan (Garden of ten thousand springs) reconstruction project and argues that it not only exemplifies her strategy of asserting political power through art but also provides a rare glimpse of how a patron’s creation and decoration of space can be read as a self-portrait.The author contends that, on the one hand, Cixi utilized the location and scale of her own palace the Tiandi yijiachun (Spring united between Heaven and Earth) as a symbol of her continuous power struggle with Qing imperial tradition; and, on the other hand, that the palace’s layout and interior décor also suggest Cixi’s feminine and religious identities.
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Eunyoung Cho. "The Empress Dowager Cixi in American Visual Culture: The Politics of Representation Viewed from a Post-colonialist Perspective." Misulsahakbo(Reviews on the Art History) ll, no. 39 (December 2012): 100–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.15819/rah.2012..39.100.

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Horowitz, Richard S. "Breaking the Bonds of Precedent: The 1905–6 Government Reform Commission and the Remaking of the Qing Central State." Modern Asian Studies 37, no. 4 (October 2003): 775–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x03004025.

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On January 29, 1901, in the grim aftermath of the Boxer Uprising and the humiliating foreign invasion of north China that followed, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued a famous edict that initiated the New Policy (xinzheng) reforms.The weakness of China is caused by the strength of convention and the rigid network of regulations. We have many mediocre officials but few men of talent and courage. The regulations are used by mediocre men as the means of their self-protection, and taken advantage of by government clerks as sources of profit. The government officials exchange numerous documents but they never touch reality. The appointment of capable men is restricted by regulations so rigid that even men of exceptional talent are missed. What misleads the country can be expressed in one word, selfishness, and what suffocates all under heaven is precedent.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Empress Dowager Cixi"

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Chen, Dennis. "The Western Perception of Empress Dowager Cixi." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5047.

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Empress Dowager Cixi is one of the most widely recognized leaders of late Qing China, and she has been the major subject of numerous non-fiction and academic publications in Europe and North America. This, however, does not mean that Western knowledge on Cixi is strong. Although certain books, particularly those written by Cixi’s closest associates, do provide valuable information describing who she was, most of these books, along with many others, also contain fabricated claims about her as well. As a result, falsities have become heavily intertwined with factual records of Cixi in Western publications. This thesis attempts to re-examine these Western works in order to reach a correct understanding of Cixi’s life. In particular, this study demonstrates how a few major ideological trends, such as imperialism, Orientalism, sexism, and feminism, have influenced Western publications on Cixi and brought either bias or insights into the literature on her.
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"Politics and Patronage: A Re-examination of Late Qing Dynasty Porcelain, 1850-1920." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53711.

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abstract: ABSTRACT Art historians typically consider Chinese porcelain a decorative art, resulting in scholars spending little time analyzing it as a fine art form. One area that is certainly neglected is porcelain produced during the late 19th and early 20th century during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911) into the early Republic period (1912–1949). As the Qing dynasty weakened and ultimately fell in 1911, there was a general decline in the quantity of porcelain produced in China. Due to this circumstance, porcelain of this era has not received the detailed analysis, characterization of styles, comprehension of themes, and understanding of patronage evident in other periods of Chinese porcelain production. Ultimately, limited research has been conducted to establish the styles associated with late dynastic porcelain into the early Republic’s establishment. This dissertation utilizes a new perspective that considers the patronage of the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) as a high point of late dynastic porcelain. Concrete documentation establishes that motifs were appropriated from Cixi’s painting, suggesting a direct connection between schools of painting and the imagery selected for porcelain during her reign. The porcelain Cixi influenced directly guided the porcelain produced during the Hongxian era (1915-1916), making Cixi’s patronage the key turning point from dynastic porcelain to early Republic porcelain. Utilizing predominately British collections, this study identifies the styles, symbols, and themes associated with porcelain of the 19th and 20th century, elevating late dynastic and early Republic wares to the status of fine art.
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Books on the topic "Empress Dowager Cixi"

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Woo, X. L. Empress dowager Cixi. New York: Algora Pub., 2002.

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1873-1944, Backhouse E. Sir, and Zhang Weihong, eds. CiXi wai zhuang: China under the Empress Dowager. Zhengzhou Shi: Henan wen yi chu ban she, 2007.

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Price, Sean. Cixi: Evil empress of China? New York: Franklin Watts, 2008.

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Chang, Jung. Cixi: Kai qi xian dai Zhongguo de huang tai hou = Empress dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China. Taibei Shi: Mai tian chu ban, 2014.

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Cixi Guangxu yi fang xuan yi: Imperial medicaments : medical prescription written for empress dowager Cixi and emperor Guangxu with commentary. Beijing Shi: Beijing da xue yi xue chu ban she, 2011.

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The empress and Mrs. Conger: The uncommon friendship of two women and two worlds. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.

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Imperial masquerade: The legend of princess Der Ling. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Penguin Random House, 2013.

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Vintage Canada, 2014.

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Anchor, 2014.

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Book chapters on the topic "Empress Dowager Cixi"

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Hudson, James J. "A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908)." In Queenship and the Women of Westeros, 3–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25041-6_1.

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"Cixi, empress dowager, Qing dynasty." In Notable Women of China, 387–400. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315702063-104.

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"Part 8 Remembering the Empress Dowager Cixi." In Rereading Modern Chinese History, 319–58. BRILL, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004293311_010.

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"The Return of the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1898." In The Peking Gazette, 299–308. BRILL, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004361003_028.

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"6 Reconfiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony." In Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries, 191–223. BRILL, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004348950_008.

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