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Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo Abstract After the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto head of the Qing court, undertook projects to reconstitute her identity through the production of photographs and paintings. While they helped to reestablish and strengthen her ties...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 3. Katherine Carl (American, 1965–1938), Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi , 1903 (completed in China). Oil on canvas with camphor wood frame, 505.8 × 262.9 × 142.2 cm (frame assembled). Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Transfer from the Smithsonian
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Figure 4. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), The Empress Dowager Cixi with Foreign Envoys' Wives at Leshoutang, Summer Palace, Beijing , 1903–5. Glass plate negative, 24.1 × 17.8 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Purchase, 1966. Smithsonian Institution
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 6. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), The Empress Dowager Cixi and Attendants on the Imperial Barge on Zhonghai, Beijing , 1903–5. Glass plate negative, 24.1 × 17.8 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Purchase, 1966. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), Formal Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi , 1903. Photograph, 23 × 17 cm. The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, 1905, FSA.A2009.02 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Figure 2. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), Formal Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi , 1903. Gugong Palace Museum Collection, Beijing. Photograph provided by the Palace Museum, Beijing.
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A Revisionist Reading of the Transition of Buddhist Cave-Making from Yungang to Longmen
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 131–170.
Published: 01 October 2021
... on the Guyang Cave and the Buddhist grotto shrines at Yungang appears to have coincided with the extensive construction projects in Pingcheng that began in the 480s. Beginning around the time of the building of Empress Dowager Wenming's tomb, massive palace construction projects continued up to the end of her...
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Figure 11. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), Formal Mirror Portrait. Cixi, Empress Dowager, 1835–1908 , 1903–5. Glass plate negative, 24.1 × 17.8 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Purchase, 1966. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, FSA A.13 SC-GR-251.
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Figure 10. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), Group Mirror Portrait. The Empress Dowager Cixi with Attendants in front of Paiyunmen, Summer Palace, Beijing , 1903–5. Glass plate negative, 24.1 × 17.8 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Purchase, 1966. Smithsonian
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in Between Concealment and Revelation: Empress Dowager Cixi's Experiments with Representation
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Figure 17. Yu Xunling (Chinese, ca. 1880–1943), Group Mirror Portrait. The Empress Dowager Cixi with Attendants in Front of Paiyunmen, Summer Palace, Beijing (detail), 1903–5. Glass plate negative, 24.1 × 17.8 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian
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Image, Body, and Simulation of the Afterlife in the Early Medieval Sarcophagus of Prince Yuan Mi
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... 12 ). 13 The site has been identified with Empress Dowager Feng 馮 (441–490). Slightly predating Yuan's sarcophagus, her burial chamber was entered through a stone gate decorated with a similar pointed arch ( Figure 12a ), demigods ( Figure 12b ), and zoomorphic heads ( Figure 12c ), although...
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Fashioning a Political Body: The Tomb of a Rouran Princess
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2007
...) in Luoyang, whose
11. Anagui sent two princesses to the Eastern Wei in death was ordered by Empress Dowager Ling, had yet to
the 540s: his young granddaughter in 542 for Gao Zhan be constructed when he met his untimely death. His epi-
and one of his daughters in 545 for Gao Huan. The biog- taph...
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The Pagoda in Kherlen-Bars: New Understandings of Khitan-Period Towering Pagodas
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., Hebei; pavilion dated
984. Photo by Roy Gridley, courtesy of Marilyn and Roy Gridley.
the White Pagoda in Qingzhou Balin youqi 巴林 a sculpture of the death of the historical Buddha Shakya-
was the empress dowager, the mother of the Xing- muni (parinirvana), were among them.55 The original
zong...
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Habitat Dioramas: Liu Kuiling's Animal Paintings in Republican-Era Tianjin
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (2): 165–190.
Published: 01 October 2014
... The empress dowager and Guangxu emperor both visited
term.67 the zoo twice. The empress dowager appropriately
In short, there was hesitation in China among edu- enough stayed at the Changguanlou the ‘‘Tower
cated elites about adopting the Japanese neologism...
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Inscriptional Practices of the Song Literati: Revisiting Su Shi's Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of district taxes, although the timing suggests that Mi was also caught up in the broader movement to oust the antireformists following the death of the Grand Empress Dowager Gao 宣仁聖烈皇后高氏 (1032–1093) in the ninth lunar month, 1093. 35 Mi was demoted with an honorary sinecure as superintendent of Zhongyue...
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Two Tales of Song-Dynasty Painted Fans
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 73–101.
Published: 01 April 2019
... sometime before 1293. 90 Other Song imperial objects found their way out of the hands of the Song Empress Dowager (held captive in Dadu) and into the collections of highly placed Yuan officials. 91 Although the details of these exchanges remain hidden, the written record does suggest that scattered...
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One Painting, Two Emperors, and Their Cultural Agendas: Reinterpreting the Qingming Shanghe Painting of 1737
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 85–117.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Empress Dowager (1692–1777), Qianlong's mother. 10 This further elucidates the meaning of European architectural elements seen in Qing court painting. In the scrolls, the routes decorated with makeshift installations for festive celebration consist of extravagant and magnificent buildings that display...
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