{"id":149,"date":"2012-11-10T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-11-22T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T15:27:29","slug":"cixi-the-empress-dowager-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Cixi, the Empress Dowager of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/643967_128801480605577_678674974_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-150\" title=\"643967_128801480605577_678674974_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/643967_128801480605577_678674974_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/643967_128801480605577_678674974_n.jpeg 799w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/643967_128801480605577_678674974_n-249x300.jpeg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Cixi, the Empress Dowager of China, was &#8220;the most powerful and most mysterious woman in the world,&#8221; according to the World Magazine published in New York, 1904. Here are some portraits of this influential and controversial historical figure of the last dynasty of China.<\/p>\n<p>More photos can be found at VIA (http:\/\/via.lib.harvard.edu\/), the public catalog of visual materials at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/302873_128801390605586_901309671_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-151\" title=\"302873_128801390605586_901309671_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/302873_128801390605586_901309671_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/302873_128801390605586_901309671_n.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/302873_128801390605586_901309671_n-217x300.jpeg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/486273_128801363938922_1620844500_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-152\" title=\"486273_128801363938922_1620844500_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/486273_128801363938922_1620844500_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/486273_128801363938922_1620844500_n.jpeg 669w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/486273_128801363938922_1620844500_n-209x300.jpeg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/553949_128801410605584_933263167_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-153\" title=\"553949_128801410605584_933263167_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/553949_128801410605584_933263167_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/553949_128801410605584_933263167_n.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2012\/11\/553949_128801410605584_933263167_n-300x250.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cixi, the Empress Dowager of China, was &#8220;the most powerful and most mysterious woman in the world,&#8221; according to the World Magazine published in New York, 1904. Here are some portraits of this influential and controversial historical figure of the last dynasty of China. More photos can be found at VIA (http:\/\/via.lib.harvard.edu\/), the public catalog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}