书名：Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making / 巧妙颠覆：慈禧太后的形象塑造 

出版：耶鲁大学出版社，2023年

装帧：精装，208页 

定价：370.0  

ISBN：9780300263435  

作者：Ying-chen Peng（彭盈真）  

出版时间：2023-01  

内容简介：

慈禧太后（1835-1908）从1861年开始统治中国至1908年去世，长期以来她一直是一个令人着迷而富有争议的话题。除了是一位精明的政治家外，她还是一位认真的艺术赞助人。这本图文并茂的专著通过探讨各种各样的物品，揭示了这位太后如何利用艺术和建筑来巩固她的统治。

慈禧的艺术委托的创新之处在于，它们将当时中国两种不同的性别观念统一起来，展示了她作为一个君主的力量与智慧，同时也突出了她作为女性和母亲的身份。本书作者研究了慈禧的委托之作，包括肖像画、照片、陶瓷、时装、建筑和园林设计等，也探讨了慈禧创作的绘画、书法等。作为一项令人信服的研究，本书呈现了一个强大的女性统治者如何同时颠覆又维护了清朝的父权制。


章节目录

绪论
第一章  “曝光”的艺术：慈禧肖像
第二章  未竟之梦：圆明园与万春园重修工程
第三章  身份认同的载体：大雅斋瓷器
第四章  重构父权空间：颐和园建筑布局
第五章  御赐笔墨：慈禧书画
余论

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascination and controversy, at turns vilified for her political maneuvering and admired for modernizing China. In addition to being an astute politician, she was an earnest art patron, and this beautifully illustrated book explores a wide range of objects, revealing how the empress dowager used art and architecture to solidify her rule.

Cixi’s art commissions were innovative in the way that they unified two distant conceptions of gender in China at the time, demonstrating her strength and wisdom as a monarch while highlighting her identity as a woman and mother. A r t f u l S u b v e r s io n examines commissioned works, including portrait paintings and photographs, ceramics, fashion, architecture, and garden design, as well as work Cixi created, such as painting and calligraphy. The book is a compelling study of how a powerful matriarch at once subverted and upheld the Qing imperial patriarchy.