Empresses of China's Forbidden City 1644-1912 / edited by Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart ; with essays and entries by Daisy Yiyou Wang, Jan Stuart, Lin Shu, Luk Yu-ping, Ying-chen Peng, Evelyn S. Rawski, Ren Wanping, and additional entries by curators at the Palace Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Freer│Sackler, Smithsonian Institution.

 Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, and the Palace Museum, Beijing, China.

Exhibition Itinerary : Peabody Essex Museum, August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019 and Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, March 30-June 23, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rediscovering the empresses of Qing China, 1644-1912 / Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart -- Key empresses in the Qing imperial family -- Timeline of Qing empresses in world context / Doris Sung and Paula Richter -- Map of the Forbidden City -- Qing empresses and their place in history / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Qing empresses and grand imperial weddings / Ren Wanping -- Tracing the lives of Qing court women / Jan Stuart -- Empress Dowager Chongqing and the Palace of Longevity and Health / Lin Shu -- Deciphering portraits of Qing empresses / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- Qing empresses as religious patrons and practitioners / Luk Yu-ping -- Empresses and Qing court politics / Ying-chen Peng -- Plates -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Glossary of selected names and terms.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : March 30-June 23, 2019, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

"Empresses in the Qing dynasty played an influential role in the imperial court and the cosmopolitan culture of their time. Offering compelling insights into the material culture, activities, and living spaces of Qing empresses, this lavishly illustrated book features over one hundred spectacular works of art from the Palace Museum in Beijing--including large-scale portraits, court robes, and richly decorated Buddhist sutras--that bring the splendor of the Qing court to life. A series of insightful essays examines the fascinating ways that key imperial women engaged with art, religion, and politics. This unprecedented exploration of the Qing court from the perspective of its top-ranked women is an important new contribution to our understanding of Chinese art and history"

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La Cité interdite : vie publique et privée des empereurs de Chine (1644-1911) : les Musées de la ville de Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 9 novembre 1996-23 février 1997. Paris musées : Association française d'action artistique, Ministère des Affaires étrangères : Diffusion, Actes sud, c1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-333) and index.
Bookplate: Gift of the Embassy of France, Beijing, January, 1997.
Include table of Manchu names-Reign titles-personal names of the Qing emperors.

***Graphic source: old plans and maps, Palace life, gardens, architecture, portraits, crafts of the Imperial workshops, paintings, Manchu hunting scenes, Manchu clothing, bow & arrows, gowns, dragon robes, Buddhist religious objects, official regalia, furniture, paintings, sceptre's, ruyi, porcelain, clocks.

Local access Dig. pdf. [La Cite Interdite.pdf]

Secret world of the Forbidden City : splendors from China's imperial palace / Yang Xin and Zhu Chengru ; foreword by Peter Keller.
Captions also in Chinese.
Exhibition catalog published: Santa Ana, CA : The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art ; Beijing : The Palace Museum, [2000?].
Inside the catalog are flyers produced by the Oakland Museum of California with sponsors, dates, and a list of lectures produced in association with the exhibition. The Ricci Institute presentation was held Saturday, December 2, 2000, entitled: Fusion 1700: Jesuits in the Qing Court. Dr. Victoria Siu's lecture, Chinese Garden Architecture, took place the previous evening. See the Oakland Museum website at: www.museumca.org.

Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong / Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong, The Field Museum, Chicago, March 12-September 12, 2004.
Bibliography: p. 281-283. Includes index.
Glossary of Chinese names, terms, items.

Catalog includes brief text entries on specific topics: Heirarchy of the Eight Banners, Cousins of the Manchus (Pamela Crossley); Ode to Mukden; Yuanming Yuan Summer Palace (Cary Y. Liu); Nurgaci's seven grievances against the Ming; Lang Shining or Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian painter at the Qing Court (Nie Chongzheng); Rong Fei and the Fragrant Concubine (Evelyn S. Rawski), Religions of the Qianlong Court (map of Buddhist and Daoist sites in the 18th century Forbidden City), etc.
Added keywords: Yuanmingyuan 圓明園, thrones, Mount Tai, high heels platform shoes, Empress's silkworms, Imperial workshops, martial arts and hunting, Heshen, Macartney's unsuccessful mission, shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam and Christianity, Jesuit ancestor rituals, Bixia and Seven Stars, mothers, wives, grandparents of the emperor, dining in the palace, Xiang Fei 香妃, palace ladies, memorial on porcelain, ceramics, jade-carving industry (Yang Boda), Voltaire on Qianlong versus Frederick the Great (Bennet Bronson). Thanka, swords, teapots, haipins, family portraits, imperial consorts, cloisonne.
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