AdvertisementPowerful Portraits Capture China's Empress DowagerPlay06:41Download AudioDecember 19, 2011Susan StambergfacebookEmailEmpress 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)
