At 11 o'clock on a warm summer's morning in 1903, 38-year-old artist Katharine Augusta Carl was ushered into the throne room of the Summer Palace, on the western outskirts of Beijing. 67-year-old Empress Dowager Cixi, who had effectively controlled China for more than 40 years, entered with her chief lady-in-waiting and interpreter Princess Der Ling, an ambassador's daughter who had.
Christopher J. Dawe is a New Hampshire native and headmaster at the Hübschmann Zhan International School in Shenyang. He is a Ph.D. candidate at University College London where he studies the history of Sino-American educational exchanges. On.
2021 Best of Year winner for International Facade. The gallery-esque showroom Ya Space in Hangzhou is the official dealer of Memphis Milano and a total embodiment of the group’s aesthetic. The two-story project (2021 winner of Best of Year: International Facade) is by Pig Design, a local architecture studio cheekily named after founder and chief designer Wenqiang Li’s especially tubby cat.