Instead of subscribing to the tale that she threw the Pearl Concubine into the well as they fled the Imperial Palace, she adopted the story that the Pearl Concubine committed suicide. For example, Min follows the Hugh Trevor Roper line that pressure from certain members of the imperial family led to the court sanctioning the Boxers. Min selected her rumors and stories to portray a sympathetic, rather than critical, portrait of Cixi. Rumors and truth become intertwined, as Hugh Trevor Roper demonstrated in his Hermit of Peking, the story of the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, a contemporary of Bland, and the probable fabrication of the declaration of war against the foreign powers in the 1900 Boxer uprising.
Buck, whose novel in 1956 fascinated the Western world, to more recent works, including Marina Warner’s The Dragon Empress (1993) and Sterling Seagrave’s, Dragon Lady (1992), stories abound about her life. Bland, an Englishman who lived in China under her reign, der Ling, the “princess” who spent two years in the Forbidden City, and Pearl S. Nevertheless, this powerful female ruler of China has fascinated people around the world, and the Harvard University catalogue lists 178 books (including translations of works in the original language and republications) on Cixi. That title goes to the Puyi Emperor’s wife (1906–1967), the Empress Gabulo Wang Rong (1906–1946), when they were married in 1922. She never had the title “empress,” which belonged to Xianfeng’s primary wife, who became known as the Empress dowager Cian, since she shared “motherhood” with Cixi. When her son ascended the throne, she was given the title of the Empress dowager Cixi, that is, mother of the reigning emperor. This book is a continuation of the story of the rise to fame and power of Orchid, who was the Noble Consort to the Xianfeng Emperor (d. Novelist Anchee Min, who was born in Shanghai in 1957, wrote an earlier novel, Orchid. Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Arts.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.
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