美国女画家 K.A.卡尔,于光绪二十九年至三十年(1903—1904年),曾入清宫为慈禧画像,回国后写了《和中国太后在一起》(With theEmpress Dowager ofChina)一书,本文系译自该书第二十一章(1926年二版)。我在颐和园为太后画像期间,中国的各种典礼和庆祝活动不一定都让我参加。在那里,人们谈到不久将会 American painter KA Karl, from twenty-nine years to thirty years (1903-1904) of the Guangxu period, has written into the Qing Empire’s portrait of Empress Dowager and wrote “With the Empress Dowager of China” after returning home. This article is translated from the twenty-first chapter of the book (1926 second edition). During my stay at the Summer Palace as the portrait of the Empress Dowager, various ceremonies and celebrations in China did not always allow me to attend. There, people talk about coming soon