Question

Katharine Carl’s portraits of a ruler of these people show her hair characteristically divided into two parts, draped over a fan-shaped frame, and ornamented with flowers and jewels. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people, whose women wore three earrings in each ear and high platform shoes likened to horse’s hooves that imitated the gait of women with “golden lotuses.”
ANSWER: Manchu [prompt on Chinese]
[10e] Carl was prohibited from including shadows when painting this Manchu dowager empress, who wears the liangbatou hairstyle and claw-like fingernail covers in numerous portraits.
ANSWER: Cixi [accept Yehe Nara Xingzhen]
[10m] Cixi enjoyed dressing as this figure with costumes like a white hood drawn from Peking Opera and a kasaya- like shawl in photographs by Xunling. This figure is traditionally depicted with a willow branch and vial of water.
ANSWER: Guan Yin [accept Avalokitesvara]
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