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Powerful Portraits Capture China's Empress Dowager

Empress Dowager Cixi poses with the wives of foreign envoys in Leshoutang, the summer palace in Beijing, circa 1903-04. (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, SC-GR 249)
Empress Dowager Cixi poses with the wives of foreign envoys in Leshoutang, the summer palace in Beijing, circa 1903-04. (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, SC-GR 249)

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