Soul in the Forbidden City: The Memoirs of Empress Dowager Cixi's Imperial Attendant, Derling

Author: De Ling
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Although De Ling's works are influenced by her personal thoughts and historical limitations and contain some erroneous viewpoints, the mainstream of her works, with astonishing memory, relentless exploration, meticulous observation, bold imagination, and association, vividly depict "Qing Palace figures" and portray "Qing Palace life," imbued with a strong sense of the era and court characteristics. Especially, they outline the various personalities of Empress Dowager Cixi with blood and flesh, making up for the lack of a late-life Empress Dowager Cixi image in historical records and art. These works hold high literary value, as well as certain historical, appreciative, academic, and collectible value. This is something that court writers who had never seen Empress Dowager Cixi could only envy.