With The Empress Dowager Of China

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? 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. Katharine A. Carl (died 1938) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. The nonfiction literature of previous centuries offers invaluable windows into the minds and preoccupations of earlier ages. With The Empress Dowager Of China combines the personal and the universal in ways that continue to resonate with contemporary readers seeking to understand both history and human nature.

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