Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling

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55 Days in Peking (film), 336 Académie Julian, 100, 197 Ackerley, J.R., 155 Afong Moy, 297 Aisin-Gioro, 5, 25, 314 Aksaka Palace (Tokyo), 55 Albert, Prince Consort, 213 Almanach de Gotha, 10 Alphonso XIII, King of Spain Der Ling’s interest in, 117, 129 Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), 325 American Consulate, Beijing, 278 American Court in Shanghai, 261 Anastasia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia, xv Anderson, Anna, xv Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking, 277 Anwei, 60 Index Arthur, Chester R., President of the United States, 298 Astor Hotel (Tianjin), 46 Backhouse, Sir Edmund, xv, xxi–xxii, 262–263 forgery of Ching-shan “diary,” 275–277 Baihe River, 29 Barker Brothers Furniture (Los Angeles), 327 Bashkirtseff, Marie, 101, 111, 197 Beijing, xv, xxiii, 5, 26, 28, 29, 33, 36– 38, 40, 44, 46, 47, 50, 57, 61, 62, 64, 67, 71, 72, 74, 75, 83–88, 91– 93, 96, 97, 100, 101, 114–117, 119, 124, 127, 129, 142–146, 152, 154, 161, 163, 173, 179, 180, 181, 183, 187, 196, 203, 206, 211, 217, 220, 378 Index 225, 226, 228, 236, 247, 248, 249, 254, 257, 260, 261, 265, 269, 276, 278, 279, 283–289, 291, 292, 301, 303, 305, 307, 309–314, 316, 318, 319, 320, 322, 326, 327, 330, 334, 338, 339 Der Ling’s first sight of, 31–32 history of, 31 Yu Keng’s house in, 35, 75, 88, 124 Beitang (North Cathedral), Beijing, 89, 91 Belaney, Archie, xv Bennet, Moore, 272 Berkeley, xxii, xxv, 299, 330, 366 Bernhardt, Sarah, 105–107, 249 Der Ling and, 107–111, 113 Beverly Hills, 319 Bing Xin, 280 Black Jade, 207 Bland, James Otway Percy, xxi–xxii, 263, 275 Bleriot, Louis, 300 Bois de Boulogne, 57, 102, 111 Book of Rites (li ji), 10 Borodin, Mikhail, 257 Bowron, Fletcher, Mayor of Los Angeles, 326 Boxer Uprising, 24, 38, 39, 62, 74, 89– 90, 117, 163, 220 and Ching-shan “diary,” 275–276 origins of, 84–86 Bredon, Hester, 5, 197 Bredon, Juliet, 221 Broadway, 300–302 Buchan, Sarah, 193 Buck, Pearl S., 300 Buddha and Buddhism, 33, 172, 179, 181, 194, 272 Bülow, Chancellor von, 50–51 Burks, Arthur, 286–287 California College (Beijing and Berkeley), 300 Candlin, Enid, 246–247 Cao Xueqin, 207 Carcer, Madame and Mademoiselle de, 50, 188 Carl, Katherine, 171, 172, 178, 213, 219, 266, 278 background of, 197 Cixi’s 68th birthday, description of, 224 Cixi’s portrait, engaged to paint, 194 Cixi’s impatience with, 235–236 departure from court, 239 fondness for Cixi, 207–208 housed at Prince Chun’s palace, 203 meets Der Ling in Paris (1900), 100, 196 permission to wear “princess” button, 237 portrait sent to St. Louis Exposition, 236–237 technique of, 197 With the Empress Dowager of China, xxi, 197, 262, 274–275 Castiglione, Giuseppe, 144 Chang,T.K., 324–325 Chen Duxui, 85 Chengtung, Sir Liang-cheng, 115, 125 as possible husband of Rong Ling, 114 Chevalier, Lloyd James, xxii Chhatarpur, Maharajah of, 155 Chiang Kai-shek, 259 Chicago World’s Fair, 44 China Under the Empress Dowager, 263, 277, 303–304, 306–307, 308 Chinatown, Los Angeles, 325–326 379 Index Chinese in America, 296–298 Chinese Exclusion Act, 298 United States v. Ju Toy, 298 Ching-ch’ang, Chinese minister to France, 76, 80 Chronological Tables of the Newly Established Off ices of the Qing Period, 6 Chuan-sen, 87–88 Chusseau-Flavien, Charles, 9, 81, 101 Cian, Empress Consort of the Xianfeng Emperor, 36, 62, 212, 263 Cixi, Empress Dowager of China (“Old Buddha”), xv, xxi, xxv, 3, 11–12, 13, 33, 36, 38–39, 51, 56, 62, 81, 114, 146, 167 appearance of, 135–136, 188, 204– 205, 215–216, 218 birds, love of, 178 boating, love of, 160–162, 201, 207, 209, 220, 225, 271 Boxer Uprising, role in, 84–90, 163 childhood of, 211 Christianity, dislike of, 172–173 cooking, prowess at, 175–176 cosmetics, interest in, 151, 216 death of, 271 education of, 61 eunuchs, mistreatment of, 164– 165, 177–178 European dance, interest in, 170– 172 flight from Beijing, 97–98 funeral of, 271 food and, 141–142 Forbidden City, dislike of, 182– 184, 228 foreign clothing, interest in, 125, 137, 184, 187 foreign things, ambivalence toward, 86, 221–222 foreign women, interest in, 126, 189, 193 Guanyin, Cixi’s love of dressing up as, 200–201 health of...