Review: Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making by Ying-chen Peng. Yale University Press, January 2023. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26343-5 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed May 2023 by Katie Edmiston, Arts, Media & Design Librarian, Central Michigan University, Park Library, edmis2k@cmich.edu.