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In 1905, at 70, the ruler of China, Cixi, wanting to change her brutal and tyrant’s image in the West, got a Dutch painter to paint her portrait. She told him to make her look young. But he painted two versions. He gave the one looking younger to Cixi and he secretly painted… pic.twitter.com/P2SQEaujcE

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