Yu Xunling

One of Yü Xunling's photographs of Empress Dowager Cixi, c. 1903-1904

Yü Xunling was a Chinese photographer, known for his photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the only extant known photographs of the empress dowager.

Xunling was a brother of "Princess" Yü Derling, one of the empress dowager's ladies-in-waiting.

References

  • Gallery labels, Young Research Library (YRL), UCLA, March 2018.