A Female Politician or the Empress Dowager?

A Study of Cixi’s Image from Le Rire, 1900

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210609.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Image of the Empress Dowager Cixi, La Rire, Charles Lucien Léandre, Box Movement, Female Politician

Abstract

Empress Dowager Cixi had never walked out of the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, but her policy of supporting the Boxers during the Box movement irritated foreign powers in 1900. In response, artist Charles Lucien Léandre defamed Cixi’s image with the background of Box movement on French Newspaper La Rire. However, Charles still reflected his respect towards Cixi in this political caricature without propaganda intention. Besides, westerner newspapers like New York Time and Times at that time focused more on Cixi’s image as a skilful politician more than an immoral woman.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yu Qin
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TI  - A Female Politician or the Empress Dowager?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
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