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The Empress Dowager Cixi, who presided over the decline of Imperial China, is often seen as a larger-than-life symbol of a darker time in China's past. This fascinating exhibition at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a branch of the renowned Smithsonian Institute) gives an unprecedented look inside the world of the Empress Dowager as she sought to retain her grasp on adying empire. After a long period of decline culminating in the failed Boxer Rebellion ofl901, Beijing carne under foreign occupation. Reparations for extravagant war expenses crippled the Imperial government. Reviled by her people and at the mercy of unsympathetic Western governments, the Empress Dowager Cixi sought desperately to remake herimage. Reversing centuries of traditional ethnic separation, the empress commissioned an amateur photographer, Xunling, to take a number of portraits. Taken in 1903 and 1904, the pictures are a carefully choreographed attempt to present an image of a pious, cosmopolitan, cultured ruler and a radical departure from social norms.

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The room titled "Private Moments" is a look behind the veil of official court life. Taken for the personal enjoyment of the empress, these photos give a deeper understanding of the photographer, Xunling, and the entire Ling family. The son ofa Manchu nobleman and a half Han, half American mother, he owes his place in history to his father, an influen tialdiplomat.Xunling's sister, Der Ling, became Cud's intermediary, interpreter (she repo rtedly spoke eightlanguages), and adviser on foreign affairs. In an intimate set of photographs that seem almost like family portraits, she is shown in the Summer Palace gardens with Empress Dowager Cixi, scenes in the snow remarkable for their inforrnalityand lack of pomp. Der Ling later traded on her former position in the United States as a self-styled princess, writing eight books about her time as the empress's right hand. These photographs legitimize her claims. So central were these images to Der Ling's identity that when she died, the negatives were clutched in her hands. In the last set of photographs, "Tableaux: The Power of Play," the Empress Dowager is shown in a series of theatrical and religious poses. The pictures contain subtle allusions to her politics, a culmination of her attempt at establishing legitimacy. Ern press Cixi was an avid fan of theatre- there were even rumours that she performed in some productions-so included in the exhibit is a series of photographs recreating the classic play Peony Pavilion. It is perhaps no coincidence that this play was the official commemoration of her seventieth birthday; one gets the im pression of an attem ptto cling to her youth. The most striking feature of the exhibition is the photos' relaxed, almost informal feel. Although they are highly orchestrated, in many pictures the empress appears at ease-in one she leans back with her legs crossed, while in another she stands laughing at a joke made by a eunuch-conveying the empress's human side. As a marker of the end of Imperial China, these photographs are an invaluable piece of Chinese cultural heritage.a

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