[COMPLETE] With the Empress Dowager of China - annise

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Hi Again --

Chapter 26 is uploaded and ready for listening.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/withtheempressdowagerofchina_26_carl_128kb.mp3
17:08.7, 88.4 dB

There's one area that needs a mention. The phrase "any other Oriental woman" occurs in two adjacent sentences at about the 5 min 30 sec mark. That is how the text reads, not a repeat. Which is not to say that there may not be a repeat elsewhere that I have left behind.....

Many thanks for listening. We only have 9 more Chapters after this one to complete the book! Next, I am thinking about reading the sequel to Station Life in New Zealand (Station Amusements in New Zealand).

Anne -- If you are happy to do the cover, there is an obvious image, which is an image of the painting of the Empress Dowager Cixi done for the St Louis Exhibition, which is available from the Smithsonian Museum. I can email the link a bit later.

Many thanks to both Anne and David for your help with this.

Cheers

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26 PL OK!

Thanks for the warning. I find this narrative very interesting.
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I'd like a link to the image :D Anne
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Hi --

Chapter 27 has been uploaded, ready for proof listening.

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/withtheempressdowagerofchina_27_carl_128kb.mp3
10:38.7, 89.5 dB

Not such an interesting chapter for me as the last one.

Thanks for listening.

Gail

PS. Anne -- I will find the link..... and post another day. We keep hearing about cases in Victoria. Glad that you are vaccinated. NZ will soon be giving up at controlling the virus except through vaccination I think. Many in the South Island like the example of how Tasmania has been managing..... but we don't have the autonomy of States to set up divisions.
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27 PL OK!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi

There are some other very interesting ones there too - I assume the long fingernails were to prove she never did manual labour :D . You probably know - but if you click on that one you can flip through all the others and the Smith.. one is there too.

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Hi Again David --

Chapter 28 has been uploaded.

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/withtheempressdowagerofchina_28_carl_128kb.mp3
12:01.3, 88.5 dB

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annise wrote: October 16th, 2021, 3:37 pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi

There are some other very interesting ones there too - I assume the long fingernails were to prove she never did manual labour :D . You probably know - but if you click on that one you can flip through all the others and the Smith.. one is there too.

Anne
Hi Anne --

Yes, there are some very interesting images in the Wikipedia article. In addition to the image from the Smithsonian of the portrait painted by Katharine Carl herself, I also like the colourised one in file "The Ci-Xi Imperial Dowager Empress (5).JPG". However, if you are doing the cover please feel free to choose. It appears that cropping the Smithsonian image, which is available in a range of resolutions, is permitted and that using that image requires attribution and a description of modifications made.

The long fingernails were the fashion -- yes, presumably to prove that everything was done for her. Some of the fingernails as they appear were actually covered with extension covers of various precious materials - jade or jewel encrusted precious metals. These are discussed early on in the memoir when Katharine Carl was painting the first portrait because it was decided to change the appearance of the finger tip covers because they looked a bit strange. I can't find the place in the text, however. Perhaps the fancy covers were used if a fingernail had broken...??? It wouldn't do to be a fingernail biter!

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28 PL OK!
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Hi Again ---

Chapter 29 has now been uploaded.

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/withtheempressdowagerofchina_29_carl_128kb.mp3
12:36.0, 88.0 dB

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29 PL OK!
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Hi --

Chapter 30 has been uploaded


https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/withtheempressdowagerofchina_30_carl_128kb.mp3
26:30.8, 89.4 dB

Thanks for checking my work

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30 PL OK!
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craigdav1 wrote: October 30th, 2021, 3:55 pm30 PL OK!
Thanks. That was so quick!! Do you listen at 1x speed? Cheers
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A pretty exciting section!
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