禁苑黃昏

用戶(hù)評(píng)論 (總計(jì)2條)

•   　　On the 29th of July, 1903, Miss Carl, who was invited by Mrs. Conger, left Shanghai for Peking. She would have the first sitting with the Empress Dowager at the Summer Palace to paint the portrait of her. This portrait would exhibit in the Exposition at St. Louis, 1904, to display “a true likeness of” Empress Dowager (pp.xix). Finally, Miss Carl had been staying in Peking with Empress Dowager for around a year. After she finished her task in Peking, she wrote the book titled With the Empress Dowager which was published in the year of 1905. In this book, Miss Carl carefully described her experiences in Peking, which was unknown for the West.
  　　
  　　There are, at least, two things in this book that interest me. On the one hand, Miss Carl in her book provided an image of Empress Dowager which was contrary to that of the West. In her eyes, Empress Dowager was a charming lady who not only had great knowledge of literacy, but also possessed the tenderness as a woman. Miss Carl talked about her loving of nature, of flowers, and of dogs. She especially emphasized the charming and attractive characteristics of Empress Dowager.
  　　
  　　On the other hand, Miss Carl gave readers a sharp and accurate observation of the life in the Qing court. She depicted several festivals in Peiking, such as the Birthday of Empress Dowager, the Middle Autumn Festivals, the Chinese new year, and the ritual to Confucius. She also described different kinds of people in Qing court, such as the eunuch, the Qing official, the emperor, the court artists, and other princess and ladies in the court. Moreover, She carefully depicted some Chinese architectures and the scenes of Chinese garden or palace. She also talked about the culture of Manchus, such as the life of Manchuria female, their clothes, and their customs. In this sense, Miss Carl was not an artist but an anthropologist.
  　　
  　　Some of these depictions are neural and objective, but some are different. Sometimes, when Miss Carl talked about Chinese culture in an amazing tone. For example, when she talked about how Chinese people played with their birds, she said, “The Chinese are so near to nature, so simple in every way, that their influence over animals and birds is extraordinary, and seems to us almost magical”(pp.138). This amazing tone shows her Orientalist perspective and stereotypes to Chinese people and culture. However, it is the Orientalism that interests me a lot. Miss Carl, on the one hand, has stereotypes to China, on the other, she loves Chinese culture from heart. She, on the one hand, seems know a lot about the life of Qing court and the customs of China, on the other, her knowledge is general and limited because of her experiences.
  　　
  　　These paradoxes are the most interest part of this book. Moreover, I love her language as well. From her writing, I think Miss Carl must be a cute lady both in appearance and personality. This photo of her in Manchuria clothes provides a good example.
•   　　 慈禧不是武則天，雖然她坐在和武則天一樣的位子上——一代女皇，武則天所處的時(shí)代是除我華夏外無(wú)強(qiáng)國(guó)，慈禧處在一個(gè)風(fēng)雨飄搖的朝代，歷史背景的不同，造就了不同的結(jié)局，武則天是如此的幸運(yùn)都不能完全沒(méi)后人所接受，可想慈禧的境遇又會(huì)好到哪里去呢。
  　　 但凡能做到皇位上的人都有著過(guò)人之處，這是可以肯定的，只是歷史和傳統(tǒng)選擇了去抹黑一個(gè)偉大的女人，來(lái)應(yīng)和這個(gè)男權(quán)的社會(huì)。
  　　 我還是很欣賞慈禧的，縱然她有再多的局限性，在那個(gè)時(shí)代已經(jīng)算是得體了，她的美是隱藏的。
  　　 中國(guó)這個(gè)大大的儒國(guó)，淹沒(méi)了多少是非，人們是懂的。
  　　 慈禧是哪個(gè)時(shí)代的國(guó)母，母儀天下，從各種條件來(lái)說(shuō)都是不為過(guò)的。如果是活在當(dāng)下，也不是一般之流所能攀附的。
  　　 慈禧在我心中是美麗的
  　　 歷史又是真的就公正嗎？
  　　 圣人不仁以，蒼生為芻狗

相關(guān)圖書(shū)

• 網(wǎng)上沖浪
• 外科學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史
• 易養(yǎng)花卉
• 熱河生物群
• 抗生素
• 邏輯的語(yǔ)法
• 球根花卉的觀葉植物栽培
• 張滌生整復(fù)外科學(xué)
• 競(jìng)翔新說(shuō)
• 企業(yè)文化
• 捕蛇養(yǎng)蛇及蛇傷防治
• 少年版二十五史
• 物理學(xué)與現(xiàn)代家庭生活/中學(xué)物理與現(xiàn)代科技
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒
• 八角肉桂金銀花高產(chǎn)栽培與加工
• 美味小炒
• 鮮美湯煲
• 精制涼拌
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒
• 清代書(shū)法
• 西藏旅游
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒-奇妙的軟物質(zhì)
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒-碳?xì)湟蛔迕婷嬗^
• 諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)百年鑒-叩開(kāi)生命之門(mén)