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- 29 c11^� E.mpr�ss Cixi was the second greatest collector of jade see Gump
r ,7 ' STd?Y Evenin9 P0SI� CCIX� 17' 1937'in Born.
tated Bibliography, Chicago, 1982. no
30 Yang Boda, opcit, p. 60. For example, a man named Fu Kun was able to purchase twentv seven beautiful jade objects mainly from the Beijing private workshops^ present to the Empress Dowager Cixi on her sixtieth birthday.
Page from the Tian GongKai Wu, a compendium of handicrafts and industries by Song Yingxing, first published in 1637, at the end of the Ming dynasty, showing women searching the Ka�rakash (Green Jade) River for jade. According to this book, it was the custom to make women strip and wade in the water for jade As jade was regarded by the Chinese to be the embodiment of Yana the male principle, women embodying the opposite Yin principle would therefore be expected to attract it.
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