Finding Aid for Princess Der Ling's Collection of Photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China LSC.0529
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Title: Princess Der Ling's collection of photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China
Creator:
Der Ling, Princess
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0529
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1903-1905
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[Identification of item], Princess Der Ling's collection of photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China (Collection
Number 529). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9944372023606533
Daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a progressive and reform-minded Chinese official and sometime minister to Japan and France. Princess
Der Ling was educated first in missionary schools and then in a French convent. After completing her education, she returned
to China to become the first lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager. She lost her job when she became engaged to an American
whom she subsequently married. Later she wrote several books about the Dowager Empress and her experiences in the Chinese
court, including
Two years in the Forbidden City,
Imperial incense,
Old Buddha,
Kowtow, and
Lotus petals.
Collection consists of 8 photographs of the Empress Dowager of China, ranging in size from approx. 20" x 12" to 20" x 16".
The first photograph shows her with her ladies-in-waiting, including Princess Der Ling. In the second photograph, Princess
Der Ling is alone with the Empress Dowager; in all the rest of the photographs, the Empress Dowager is shown by herself.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908--Photographs.
Der Ling, Princess --Photographs.
Cixi, Empress dowager of China
Der Ling, Princess
Dowager Empress Tzu His checking her hair in a mirror in front of Pan Yuin De'en Palace (Winding Cloud Palace), with ladies-in-waiting. Number 1.
From left: Empress Lung Yu, wife of Emperor Kuang Hsu; Guin Sho; Princess Der Ling, first court lady to Tzu Hsi; Dowager Empress
Tzu Hsi; Second Eunuch Tsuea; Tsze Gurga, court lady, fourth daughter of Prince Cheng; Yuenda Nina, widow of one of Tzu Hsi's
nephews; Lee Lee, grand-daughter of Lady Yu Keng; Lady Yu Keng, wife of Lord Yu Keng, Minister to Paris 1899 - 1903, and mother
of Der Ling and Roong Ling; Roong Ling, second court lady and Princess Der Ling's sister.