Last Manchu The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

Name: Last Manchu The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
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ISBN: 9781602397323

ISBN-10: 1602397325

ISBN-13: 9781602397323

Edition: 2009

Authors: Henry Pu Yi, Paul Kramer

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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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.



Preface


Introduction



My Childhood



Coronation and Abdication



Living as Emperor



"Mothers" and Son



My Wet Nurse



Eunuchs



Studying in the Yu Ching Palace



Reginald Johnston-My British Tutor



My Youth



A Brief Restoration



My Wedding



Family Clashes



Dispersal of the Eunuchs



Reorganizing the Household Department



My Exile



From the Forbidden City to the Legation Quarter



Tientsin



Mausoleums and the Japanese



Living in the Temporary Palace



The Unquiet "Quiet" Garden



Crossing the White River



My Fourteen-Year Restoration



Chief Executive of Manchukuo



Imperial Dreams



The Treaty



Emperor for the Third Time



Illusions Vanish



Yasunori Yoshioka-My Adviser



Majesty Without Power



Collapse



My Captivity



Five Years in the Soviet Union



Back to Manchuria-A Prisoner



Isolated



Intensified Brainwashing



Self-Pity



Conditions Improve



A Special Pardon



My New Life



The Forbidden City-Revisited


Epilogue