Last Manchu Pa

by Pu Yi,Henry

• ISBN13: 9781602397323
• ISBN10: 1602397325
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Cds Books

Summary

In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking's Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi's life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor. The Last Manchu is a unique, enthralling record of China's most turbulent, dramatic years.

Author Biography

Henry Pu Yi is more commonly known as "the last emperor." He lived in Beijing, Manchuria, and Siberia before becoming an ordinary citizen of the People's Republic of China. He died in 1967. Paul Kramer (1915-2008) was a naval officer and a secret service agent. He acquired and edited Henry Pu Yi's autobiography in 1965 after learning about it from Chinese American friends.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
My Childhood
Coronation and Abdication	p. 3
Living as Emperor	p. 12
"Mothers" and Son	p. 23
My Wet Nurse	p. 29
Eunuchs	p. 34
Studying in the Yu Ching Palace	p. 43
Reginald Johnston-My British Tutor	p. 50
My Youth
A Brief Restoration	p. 61
My Wedding	p. 76
Family Clashes	p. 83
Dispersal of the Eunuchs	p. 93
Reorganizing the Household Department	p. 98
My Exile
From the Forbidden City to the Legation Quarter	p. 107
Tientsin	p. 120
Mausoleums and the Japanese	p. 126
Living in the Temporary Palace	p. 133
The Unquiet "Quiet" Garden	p. 141
Crossing the White River	p. 146
My Fourteen-Year Restoration
Chief Executive of Manchukuo	p. 161
Imperial Dreams	p. 166
The Treaty	p. 169
Emperor for the Third Time	p. 173
Illusions Vanish	p. 182
Yasunori Yoshioka-My Adviser	p. 187
Majesty Without Power	p. 191
Collapse	p. 199
My Captivity
Five Years in the Soviet Union	p. 209
Back to Manchuria-A Prisoner	p. 218
Isolated	p. 228
Intensified Brainwashing	p. 247
Self-Pity	p. 266
Conditions Improve	p. 273
A Special Pardon	p. 288
My New Life
The Forbidden City-Revisited	p. 295
Epilogue	p. 305
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