Qing Empresses Exhibition Named Best Show 2018
Trying to pique Westerners' interest in Chinese history through historical fiction is hard, as the genre is just way too Eurocentric. It's a good thing that this exhibition of Qing Empresses has caught some eyeballs. I hope this will help spread the word about early Qing history, and about Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang as a key (but probably forgotten) female leader, whose influence was inexorably tied to the successful rise of the Qing Dynasty.
The Boston Globe named the Qing Empresses Exhibition at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts as "Best Thematic/Historical Show of 2018".
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Feb 21, 2019 06:39AM
Alice, the link doesn't appear to go to anything about the Qing Empresses Exhibition.
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Werner, yes, the link is only to the Boston Globe article that named the Qing Empresses show as the Best Thematic/Historical Show of 2018. The show was up for about 3 months at the Peabody Essex Museum at Salem, Mass. and it has just ended. But the exhibits will be moved to and displayed at the Freer/Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC from March 30, 2019 to June 2019.
Thanks for the clarification and additional information, Alice!
Actually, a reader was kind enough to send me an article in the latest issue of the Arts of Asia magazine (in PDF) which is about the Empresses Exhibits (including portraits and paintings). If you are interested, I can DM you and attach the PDF article.
Oops, sorry! I can't attach files in a direct message (still half asleep!)
Alice, I'll personal message you later this evening with my e-mail address. You can send an attachment to me that way (and thanks for the offer!).
