The country was decorated. Royal family members went to celebrated Empress Dowager Cixi’s 50th birthday.
The artful dowager
Empress of China Tsou-Hsi 1898
The audience given by the Empress-Dowager and the Emperor of China to the wives of the foreign ministers at Peking, on December 13.
The funeral of the China Emperor Kuang Su
Making a vessel of smoke for a dead empress: Burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late empress dowager of China across the river separating it from the heavenly nirvana.