Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2018 shows the Empresses of China's Forbidden City Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, the United States. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of empresses in shaping China’s last dynasty -- the Qing -- from 1644 to 1911. Nearly 200 spectacular objects from the Palace Museum tell the little-known stories of how imperial women influenced court politics, art and religion. (Photo: China News Service/Liao Pan)
Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2018 shows the Empresses of China's Forbidden City Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, the United States. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of empresses in shaping China’s last dynasty -- the Qing -- from 1644 to 1911. Nearly 200 spectacular objects from the Palace Museum tell the little-known stories of how imperial women influenced court politics, art and religion. (Photo: China News Service/Liao Pan)
Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2018 shows the Empresses of China's Forbidden City Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, the United States. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of empresses in shaping China's last dynasty -- the Qing -- from 1644 to 1911. Nearly 200 spectacular objects from the Palace Museum tell the little-known stories of how imperial women influenced court politics, art and religion. (Photo: China News Service/Liao Pan)
Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2018 shows the Empresses of China's Forbidden City Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, the United States. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of empresses in shaping China’s last dynasty -- the Qing -- from 1644 to 1911. Nearly 200 spectacular objects from the Palace Museum tell the little-known stories of how imperial women influenced court politics, art and religion. (Photo: China News Service/Liao Pan)
Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2018 shows the Empresses of China's Forbidden City Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, the United States. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of empresses in shaping China’s last dynasty -- the Qing -- from 1644 to 1911. Nearly 200 spectacular objects from the Palace Museum tell the little-known stories of how imperial women influenced court politics, art and religion. (Photo: China News Service/Liao Pan)