The Western Perception of Empress Dowager Cixi

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dc.contributor.authorChen, Dennis
dc.contributor.supervisorChen, Zhongping
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-28T23:46:45Z
dc.date.available2014-11-16T12:22:06Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-11-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractEmpress Dowager Cixi is one of the most widely recognized leaders of late Qing China, and she has been the major subject of numerous non-fiction and academic publications in Europe and North America. This, however, does not mean that Western knowledge on Cixi is strong. Although certain books, particularly those written by Cixi’s closest associates, do provide valuable information describing who she was, most of these books, along with many others, also contain fabricated claims about her as well. As a result, falsities have become heavily intertwined with factual records of Cixi in Western publications. This thesis attempts to re-examine these Western works in order to reach a correct understanding of Cixi’s life. In particular, this study demonstrates how a few major ideological trends, such as imperialism, Orientalism, sexism, and feminism, have influenced Western publications on Cixi and brought either bias or insights into the literature on her.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0332en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0578en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0582en_US
dc.description.proquestemaildchen@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationChen, Dennis. "The Byzantine Navy." Simon Fraser University History Student Union Journal (2009-2011): 8-16.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5047
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectideologyen_US
dc.subjectimperialismen_US
dc.subjectde-colonialismen_US
dc.subjectOrientalismen_US
dc.subjectsexismen_US
dc.subjectfeminismen_US
dc.titleThe Western Perception of Empress Dowager Cixien_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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