nah... i think it's real... photo cameras were in China already back then... it's those old one where u take the pic n a flame/sparks would pop up... she once banned the camera in the Forbidden City... coz she thought cameras were evil and photos would capture their soul or something
oh yeah!!! how can i forget abt that haha... thanks for reminding me!!! yeah gotta give her heaps of credits for that
cool there was another link in this forums with pictures of wong fei hong. Maybe we'll get pictures of other chinese historical figures. I always wondered how kuan yu really looked like but there was no photography back then. damn
Ci Xi was a dumb bitch who screwed over China's modernization attempts. Nonetheless, it's been expected anyway, given the political environment at the time, it was the norm. Ah well...had the Qing been a bit less self-serving and arrogant, you certainly wouldn't seen the Japanese/Russian/British/etc. threat early 20th century onwards. Lol, can't believe she was even a concubine...
is that the empress in Madien's Vow? theres some old lady's picture at the beginning of each peisode when they play the theme song.
but don't forget it was her that got rid of the Family Annihilation (that's the killing of 9 generations of the one who committed a serious crime) yeah that's the empress that ate at Yu Fung's restaurant in the 5th or 6th episode...
She was never an Empress, just a dowager. Wu Zetian was the only (official) Empress in Chinese history. And she was a lot crueler. Cixi was mostly just stupid and ran the kingdom into the ground. She was manipulative and knew a great deal about palace intrigues and skullduggery. But as a leader she was lousy; out of touch with the people and out of her league when it came to dealing with the needs of the country, especially with foreigners. I think you mean eunuchs, or men who undergo emasculation or castration, to allow them to serve the rear palace, where the concubines lived. Unix, is a computer coding language. Ralph
Chinahistoryforum.com And yes, there were cameras already in China by the late 1800's. As a matter of fact, I have several photobooks of old pictures taken in China around the 1860's. Here's one, published in 1978, out of print but you can still get it on the used market: China in old photographs 1860-1910, by Burton F. Beers ...and this link, has hundreds of examples of old Chinese drawings and photos: http://www.talesofoldchina.com/french/ Ralph
