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“While browsing through the Seattle Art Museum in 1945, a scholar discovered a 5-inch jade seal, missing from China since the Boxer Rebellion, as a priceless Imperial seal. “My spectacles fell off my nose and I started to yell,” said Hugh Alexander Matier, 62-year-old scholar and traveler.”

Art History Discovery China Empress Imperial Boxer Rebellion Dowager Forbidden City Eyewitness

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

“He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine.”

China Journalism Cuisine Chinese Cooking Hongkong

Book:My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

Source: My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“In this eyewitness story, we meet Tzu-hsi in the twilight of her reign. Advanced in age, the Empress on the Dragon Throne is no longer the young beauty whose skill at seduction and aptitude for court intrigue saw her rise from a lowly Imperial concubine to the second most powerful place under the Hsien-feng Emperor.”

Culture History China Chinese Asia Empress Dowager Forbidden City

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

“Armed with her title as princess, the married name of Mrs. Thaddeus White, and the United States as a new frontier to conquer, Der Ling won many admirers.”

America History China Empress Dowager Forbidden City Last Emperor

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

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