All evening Events (1)

October 19Wednesday

• The Last Empress of China

  October 19, 2011 from 6:45pm to 8:45pm – S. Dillon Ripley Center When she was barely out of her teens, the future Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) arrived in the court of the Manchu Qing dynasty as a mid-level concubine, but her status as the mother of the sole im… Organized by The Smithsonian | Type: evening, seminar