The cover page is adapted from The Empress Dowager, Tze Hsi, of China, a painting completed in 1903 by Katharine A. Carl. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_A._Carlwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
With the Empress Dowager of China
Capítulos (37)
- Dedication 0:00
- Introductory 0:22
- I: My Presentation and First Day at the Chinese Court 11:08
- II: Personal Appearance of Her Majesty—A Chinese Repast—Boating 36:26
- III: The Palace of the Emperor’s Father (Prince Ch’un, the Seventh Prince) 50:40
- IV: Her Majesty’s Throne-Room—Some Personal Characteristics 1:01:30
- V: The Young Empress and Ladies of the Court 1:15:40
- VI: Continuation of the Portrait—Her Majesty’s Dogs 1:29:14
- VII: Festivities at Court 1:40:07
- VIII: His Majesty the Emperor Kwang-Hsu 1:51:59
- IX: The Emperor’s Birthday 2:07:09
- X: Peking—The Sea Palace 2:30:50
- XI: Some Characteristics of Her Majesty—Second Visit to the Sea Palace 2:53:15
- XII: Return to the Summer Palace 3:11:35
- XIII: The Steam-Launch—Semiannual Sacrifices to Confucius 3:20:28
- XIV: The Palace Eunuchs 3:29:46
- XV: The Literary Tastes and Accomplishments of the Empress Dowager 3:40:49
- XVI: The Great Audience Hall—Some Official Customs 4:00:48
- XVII: The Summer Palace and Its Grounds 4:12:05
- XVIII: The Festival of the Harvest Moon—Work on the Portrait 4:22:59
- XIX: A Garden Party at the Summer Palace 4:38:01
- XX: I Begin a Second Portrait of Her Majesty—The Palace Painters 4:47:51
- XXI: A European Circus at the Palace 4:58:00
- XXII: Palace Customs 5:10:05
- XXIII: Her Majesty’s Anxiety—Her Birthday 5:25:12
- XXIV: The Winter Palace 5:33:55
- XXV: Peking—Beginning the Portrait for St. Louis 5:52:33
- XXVI: Some Social Customs—Manchu and Chinese 6:05:43
- XXVII: Present-Giving in China 6:23:44
- XXVIII: Some Winter Days at the Palace 6:33:47
- XXIX: Religious Rites in China 6:47:04
- XXX: Her Majesty the Empress Dowager 7:00:54
- XXXI: The Empress Dowager’s Charities, Sense of Justice, Extravagance, and Personal Characteristics 7:29:50
- XXXII: The Chinese New Year—Official Audience 7:45:46
- XXXIII: Continuation of the St. Louis Portrait—Spring Days at the Sea Palace 7:58:58
- XXXIV: Finishing and Sending Off the Portrait 8:10:14
- XXXV: Return to the Summer Palace 8:20:08
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In 1903, Katharine A. Carl, an American painter, received an invitation from Sarah Pike Conger, wife of the American minister to China, to be presented before the Chinese imperial court to paint a portrait of Cixi, the Empress Dowager, for exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. After an initial sketching session, Carl was invited by the Empress Dowager to stay with her imperial court, first for a matter of days, and then for an extended period of several months. In doing so, Carl became the first person to paint a Western-style portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi and was one of the only Westerners to have lived with the Chinese imperial court during the last decade of the Qing dynasty. With the Empress Dowager of China describes Carl’s travels and interactions with her court, including her recollections of the Empress Dowager’s reactions to crises like the Russo-Japanese War.