Old pics of Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后

Discussion in 'Chinese Chat' started by ~*Dawn*~, Jun 20, 2006.

  1. nah... i think it's real... photo cameras were in China already back then... it's those old one where u take the pic n a flame/sparks would pop up... she once banned the camera in the Forbidden City... coz she thought cameras were evil and photos would capture their soul or something
     
  2. freechina

    freechina New Member

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    she is the best to bring down the manchu and free china from the pig tail queue forever.
     
  3. x3ternaltearsx

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    her long nails scaryy =X it can kill sumone >......< lol nice pic i dont knwo mych bout the past ~_~
     
  4. Sogaris

    Sogaris Well-Known Member

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    Glad to be able to see some chinese history, thanks for sharing
     
  5. oh yeah!!! how can i forget abt that haha... thanks for reminding me!!! yeah gotta give her heaps of credits for that
     
  6. hidden dragon

    hidden dragon Well-Known Member

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    very interesting :D!
     
  7. Kooslee

    Kooslee Well-Known Member

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    She isn't good looking at all. She is scaring.
     
  8. dragopyre

    dragopyre Well-Known Member

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    cool there was another link in this forums with pictures of wong fei hong. Maybe we'll get pictures of other chinese historical figures. I always wondered how kuan yu really looked like but there was no photography back then. damn
     
  9. Panda

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    Ci Xi was a dumb bitch who screwed over China's modernization attempts. Nonetheless, it's been expected anyway, given the political environment at the time, it was the norm. Ah well...had the Qing been a bit less self-serving and arrogant, you certainly wouldn't seen the Japanese/Russian/British/etc. threat early 20th century onwards.

    Lol, can't believe she was even a concubine...
     
  10. qoo

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    is that the empress in Madien's Vow? theres some old lady's picture at the beginning of each peisode when they play the theme song.
     

  11. but don't forget it was her that got rid of the Family Annihilation (that's the killing of 9 generations of the one who committed a serious crime)


    yeah that's the empress that ate at Yu Fung's restaurant in the 5th or 6th episode...
     
  12. korx

    korx Well-Known Member

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    There's a new study going on claiming that historians wrongly blamed everything on Empress Cixi.
     
  13. krazyaznboi

    krazyaznboi Well-Known Member

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    she even makes the people standing around her ugly...ugh
     
  14. really??? can u tell us more or show us the article??
     
  15. thebestofme

    thebestofme Well-Known Member

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    nice picture, but the first one looks like a doll
     
  16. I just finished learning about her and the Boxer Rebellion in Advanced World History.
     
  17. Fayjai

    Fayjai Member

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    incase you didn't know most of the guys in those pictures are unix lol
     
  18. ralphrepo

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    She was never an Empress, just a dowager. Wu Zetian was the only (official) Empress in Chinese history. And she was a lot crueler. Cixi was mostly just stupid and ran the kingdom into the ground. She was manipulative and knew a great deal about palace intrigues and skullduggery.

    But as a leader she was lousy; out of touch with the people and out of her league when it came to dealing with the needs of the country, especially with foreigners.

    I think you mean eunuchs, or men who undergo emasculation or castration, to allow them to serve the rear palace, where the concubines lived.

    Unix, is a computer coding language.

    Ralph
     
  19. joni89

    joni89 Member

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    QING dynasty ftl
     
  20. ralphrepo

    ralphrepo Well-Known Member

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    Chinahistoryforum.com

    And yes, there were cameras already in China by the late 1800's. As a matter of fact, I have several photobooks of old pictures taken in China around the 1860's. Here's one, published in 1978, out of print but you can still get it on the used market:

    China in old photographs 1860-1910, by Burton F. Beers

    ...and this link, has hundreds of examples of old Chinese drawings and photos:

    http://www.talesofoldchina.com/french/

    Ralph
     
    #60 ralphrepo, Jan 4, 2007
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