This essay appears in 52 Artists 52 Actions: Small Acts of Disobedience, co-published by Artspace Sydney and Thames & Hudson Australia in 2019.

His pregnant wife quickly followed him, some say at Cixi's hand, and by 1875, Cixi was back at the helm, appointing her four-year-old nephew as the new emperor, named Guangxu. But even after she ...

The records from the 10th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign state that 8,080 catties plus two taels of Jade Spring wine were used for food or other purposes in Cixi's private kitchen that year.

He worked as a tutor to the Tongzhi Emperor as well as the Guangxu Emperor, while also holding several important positions in the Qing government. However, Weng’s involvement in Kang Youwei’s reform ...

In 1906, during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the park area became an agricultural experimental farm and a zoo. Known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Animals (Wanshengyuan), it opened to the public ...