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ALL ABOUT ARTS; 2 Fil-Am actors cast in 'Empress'
; ...manipulates the itinerant actor, Shen Tai; banishes the revolutionary tutor, Kang Yu-Wei, and finally forces her nephew. Emperor Kuang-Hsu, to relinquish his throne in her favor. Set behind the walls of the Forbidden City, see how the "Dragon Empress," convinced...
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Empress Tzu-Hsi's coup: September 21st, 1898.(China)(Freeze Frame)(Brief Article)
; ...three-year-old nephew as her son and making him the next emperor, as Kuang-Hsu. In her fifties, Tzu-Hsi ostensibly retired to the gorgeous...Tzu-Hsi moved reliable army units to Peking to replace Kuang-Hsu's guards and stormed into the Forbidden City in a towering...
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TITLE: LETTER TO THE EDITOR
; ...demanding concessions, franchises and leases in the aftermath of a Sino-Japanese conflict from the vulnerable Emperor Kuang Hsu. There were secret societies, known later as Boxers, who hated all foreigners and threatened to overthrow the Manchu dynasty...
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FOOD, FURNITURE, FUND-RAISING St. Monica prepares for 32nd annual antique show
; ...exhibits with her husband, David. The Pitts specialize in 19th-century porcelain, from the Hsien Feng (1851-1862) to the Kuang Hsu (1875-1908) periods of the Ching dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1912. Other than weather, Pitts thinks the show is...
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DEATHS
; ...play, "Sorrows of the Forbidden City," depicted the power struggle between the Manchu dowager empress and the Emperor Kuang-hsu over his willingness to accept republican ideas. Mao Tse-tung in 1967 condemned a 1950 movie version of the play and those...
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Look of nature is continuing to take root in homes
; ...painting, so brushwashers held ordinary water. The word Guangdong dates the pottery. It refers to the reign of Guangxu, or Kuang-hsu, the emperor of China from 1875 to 1908. Q. Could you please tell us how to find a good, reliable appraiser? Should the...
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Review - Features: Empress of all she desired Rumours of Tzu Hsi's sexual exploits and wild intrigues amazed foreigners a century ago. Diana Preston, previewing her new book, gives an intimate portrait of China's last Empress Dowager
; ...warm-blooded Manchu concubines and sleek eunuchs. The only man allowed to spend the night was the Emperor, the Dowager's nephew, Kuang Hsu, whom she had chosen to succeed her unfortunate son and whom she subsequently incarcerated when, in 1898, he attempted...
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Beauty in pursuit of pleasure: 19th-century Chinese export watercolours on pith depict a variety of idealised, attractive women. Ifan Williams traces the sources for these popular images, which appealed to western audiences as representations of the sophistication and exoticism of Chinese civilisation.
; ...of China' when sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet in Hong Kong in 1977. This is presumably Lung-Yu, chosen by her aunt to be Kuang-hsu's bride. Perhaps we should have some sympathy with the artist trying to make something of this sunken-chested, long-faced...
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