Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People (Classic Reprint)

Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, theE mpress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away from a world they were anxious to see, and which was equally anxious to see them. Then theE mperor instituted reform, theE mpress Dowager came out from behind the screen, and the court entered into social relations withE uropeans. For twenty years and more Mrs. Headland has been physician to the family of theE mpress Dowager smother, theE mpress sister, and many of the princesses and high official ladies in Peking. She has visited them in a social as well as a professional way, has taken with her her friends, to whom the princesses have shown many favours, and they have themselves been constant callers at our home. It is to my wife, therefore, that I am indebted for much of the information contained in this book. There are many who have thought that theE mpress Dowager has been misrepresented.
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