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The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds

Grant Hayter-Menzies

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9789888083008

Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083008.001.0001

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Imperial audience’s feathers

Imperial audience’s feathers

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(p.59) 6 Imperial audience’s feathers
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The Empress and Mrs. Conger
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Grant Hayter-Menzies

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Hong Kong University Press
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888083008.003.0017

This chapter describes Sarah Conger's first meeting with Empress Dowager Cixi. Sarah Conger and the wives of six other foreign ministers had been invited by the Empress Dowager for an audience in Zhongnanhai, the Sea Palaces complex. Amiable Cixi was, but it was not weakness that moved her to grant this audience — it had taken a fair amount of courage, and perhaps an equal amount of realpolitik. As when she freely invited the French doctor to come to the Forbidden City to examine the emperor, it was the politically savvy thing to do to beckon the wives of the foreign ministers for a glimpse of her private world.

Keywords:   Sarah Conger, Empress Dowager, Zhongnanhai, Forbidden city

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