![]() ![]() ![]() ^ "Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs"."Century-old portraits of a Chinese empress show an eye for good public relations". ^ "Paris Chinese in European Fancy Dress".Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling (PDF). ![]() ^ Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République française (in French).On a joué la comédie une pièce anglaise en trois actes a été même supérieurement interprétée par les filles de l'ambassadeur, M lles Lizzie et Nelly Yu, et leurs frères, MM. " 'Going Public': Portraits of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Circa 1904". In the 2006 television series Princess Der Ling, John Shuinling was played by Xu Jian.Not much is known about his later life, he died in 1944. In 1936, he wrote an afterword for the Chinese translation of Der Ling's Imperial Incense, at the invitation of its translator Chin Shou-ou. More than half of the negatives are now held by the Arthur M. After the Yus' return to China, from 1903 to 1905, he took a large number of photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi with a camera from Europe. He became an amateur photographer during his stay in Paris. In March 1901, the Yus threw a fancy dress ball at the Chinese Embassy to celebrate Chinese New Year, at which Shuinling was costumed as Pluto, his siblings Hsingling, Roung Ling and Der Ling, were dressed respectively as Napoleon, Prince Charming and a doll in the fairy tale. The weekly magazine Armée et Marine reported that the four children of Minister Yu Keng "superbly performed" an English comedy in three acts at a soirée organised by their father. Find link is a tool written by Edward Betts. The Yu siblings led a cosmopolitan life in Paris, they socialised, frequented the theatre and performed at their parents' parties. :52įrom 1899 to 1902, he served as second secretary in the Qing-dynasty Embassy in France, where his father held a diplomatic post. The British diplomat Sir Robert Hart described them as "a noisy family of English-speaking children, were fluent also in Japanese and French". They all received Western education in American missionary school. He had three siblings, one brother Charles Yu Hsingling, two younger sisters, Lizzie Yu Der Ling and Nellie Yu Roung Ling. Biography The Yu siblings at the fancy dress ball in 1901 from left: Commandant Armani as Francis I of France, Lizzie Yu Der Ling as a doll in the fairy tale, Charles Yu Hsingling as Napoleon, Nellie Yu Roung Ling as Prince Charming, and John Yu Shuinling as Pluto.īorn in an upper-class family, he was the elder son of Yu Keng, a high-ranking Manchu official, and Louisa Pierson, a Chinese-American woman of mysterious antecedents. He was also an engineer and worked as director of the power station of Summer Palace, and a photographer notably for taking numerous photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi. John Yu Shuinling ( Chinese: 裕勛齡 pinyin: Yù Xūnlíng Wade–Giles: Yü Hsün-ling 1874 – 1944 ), often referred to as John Shuinling (also spelt Shung-Ling ), was a Hanjun Plain White bannerman who served as second secretary in the Qing-dynasty Embassy in France. ![]()
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