{"product_id":"artful-subversion-ying-chen-peng-9780300263435","title":"Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager CIXI's Image Making","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascination and controversy, at turns vilified for her political maneuvering and admired for modernizing China. In addition to being an astute politician, she was an earnest art patron, and this beautifully illustrated book explores a wide range of objects, revealing how the empress dowager used art and architecture to solidify her rule. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cixi's art commissions were innovative in the way that they unified two distant conceptions of gender in China at the time, demonstrating her strength and wisdom as a monarch while highlighting her identity as a woman and mother. \u003ci\u003eArtful Subversion\u003c\/i\u003e examines commissioned works, including portrait paintings and photographs, ceramics, fashion, architecture, and garden design, as well as work Cixi created, such as painting and calligraphy. The book is a compelling study of how a powerful matriarch at once subverted and upheld the Qing imperial patriarchy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ying-Chen Peng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300263430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300263435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 8.27w x 0.87d","brand":"Ying-Chen Peng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080258187519,"sku":"9780300263435","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cc986dc-13e9-47f0-80c1-b6e380e63667.jpg?v=1685485807","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artful-subversion-ying-chen-peng-9780300263435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}