On this episode of "Two Years in the Forbidden City"......Mrs. Conger, the wife of the American Minister to Peking asks for a private audience and proposes that a portrait be painted of Her Majesty, which was perceived as horrific at the time.

Two Years in the Forbidden City

Two Years in the Forbidden City - Chapter 12

"Two Years in the Forbidden City" is a book written by Princess Der Ling, who was the renowned Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the early 20th century. Though Empress Dowager Cixi is a household name, Der Ling's point of view offers a quite unique and surprisingly intimate portrayal of the Empress and Beijing's Imperial Palace in China's last feudal dynasty. http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast

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