The Empress Regent in Convalescence In the waning years of the 19th century, the Qing Dynasty found itself at a […]
The Setting: A Palace Ritual and a Memory In the hushed halls of the Palace of Eternal Spring, a ritual […]
A Frosty Morning in the Forbidden City On the twenty-seventh day of the tenth lunar month in the fourth year […]
Introduction: A Glimpse into Qing Officialdom The late Qing dynasty presented a complex tapestry of bureaucratic intrigue, where moral conduct […]
A Fateful Night in the Qing Court In the bitter cold of a Beijing winter night, the year 1875 began […]
The Setting: A Nation in Mourning The Forbidden City lay shrouded in an atmosphere of profound solemnity. On an unseasonably […]
The Gathering Storm in the Forbidden City In the waning days of 1874, the Forbidden City stood as a monument […]
A Palace Divided by Protocol and Illness In the heart of Beijing’s Forbidden City during the late Qing Dynasty, an […]
A Throne in Peril: The Emperor’s Mysterious Illness In the winter of 1874, the Forbidden City was shrouded in anxiety. […]
A Night of Anxious Reflection On a bitterly cold evening in the winter of 1874-1875, Prince Gong, one of the […]
A Curious Ceremony in the Forbidden City In the winter of 1874, the Forbidden City witnessed an unusual spectacle. Empress […]
A Throne in Peril: The Qing Dynasty’s Uncertain Moment In the winter of 1874, the Qing Empire faced a constitutional […]
A Fateful Chill in the Forbidden City In the winter of 1874, the Forbidden City stood shrouded in an uncommonly […]
An Imperial Education Under Watchful Eyes In the waning years of the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City housed not just […]
An Unsettling Discovery in the Imperial Bath In the autumn of 1874, during what appeared to be a routine bathing […]
A Palace in Peril: The Setting of the Crisis In the humid summer of 1874, the Forbidden City stood as […]
A Secret Memorial Rocks the Forbidden City In the autumn of 1874, a confidential memorial from ten senior ministers arrived […]
The Gathering Storm in the Forbidden City In the waning days of the Qing dynasty, a tense drama unfolded within […]
The Historical Backdrop of a Weakening Dynasty The year 1874 found the Qing Dynasty at a critical juncture in its […]
A Portent in the Heavens In the summer of 1874, the imperial astronomers of the Qing Dynasty’s Bureau of Astronomy […]
The Setting: Imperial Ambition and Financial Strain In the waning decades of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court found itself […]
An Idle Winter in the Capital The year drew to a close with uncharacteristic mildness in Beijing. Light snows and […]
