LECTURE - The Dowager Empress Cixi

The Dowager Empress Cixi

by David Rosier

Dear Members and Guests,

We invite you to join us for the fifth lecture of the season given by David Rosier on ‘The Dowager Empress Cixi’ in the Atrium on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 20.00 hours.

PLEASE Note that this will be in our NEW LOCATION, the Atrium of the Pastoral Centre of the Church of Our Saviour in The Hague [Helenastraat 8, 2595 HA, The Hague].

This lecture will provide an insight into the achievements of one of the most influential women in Chinese imperial history. From a comparatively low position as a consort rising to Empress in 1861, Cixi preserved and revitalised imperial rule in China.

This will be a live lecture with the lecturer physically present in the Atrium. We are hoping that members and Guests will take the opportunity to come to the Atrium.

For those unable to be present at the Atrium, this lecture will also be streamed via a Zoom Webinar to those who registered.

You are requested to sign up for the lecture beforehand, also if you are coming to join us in person at the Atrium, by clicking on the sentence at the 'How to book' section.

How to book this event:

Registration will open on +/- 28 JAN 25 and close at midnight 09 FEB 25.

Please click on this sentence to register for Atrium attendance or Zoom Webinar.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr David Rosier

A Chartered Insurer by profession and a Fellow of the Assurance Medical Society, with extensive international experience as an author and lecturer in Medical Risk Assessment. He has in excess of 25 years of working and living in Asia. Whilst living in Hong Kong (1991-2004) he assembled a collection of approximately 700, predominately Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Imperial and related textiles/costume accessories. Past Committee Member of the Hong Kong Textile Society and frequent speaker on Imperial Insignia and Badges of Rank.

David can organise and lead Imperial Art Tours to China for Societies. In late 2019 the Collection of Imperial Court Costume was acquired, in its entirety, by The Shanghai Musuem, Peoples' Republic of China to be displayed in the new annexe of the museum which opened in 2021.

GALLERY