Description
The Photographs of Cixi in the Collection of the Palace Museum
Author: Lin Jing
Order No. 3501
ISBN-13: 9787800473722
ISBN-10: 7800473724
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Forbidden City Press
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 53
Language: English
Size: 6 x 7.5
Price: $22.95
This is a collection of photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi, featured at the Palace Museum. It contains a brief introductory biography of the Empress Dowager and chapter-by-chapter commentary about the photographs and the Dowager’s preferences regarding them. According to the documented records of the hundreds of different photographs, also kept at the Palace Museum, the Dowager preferred full-length images of herself, with no close-ups. The book comments on the photographs’ compositions. With b&w and color photos.