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The last Manchu : the autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China / Henry Pu Yi and Paul Kramer.

Title
The last Manchu : the autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China / Henry Pu Yi and Paul Kramer.
Author
Puyi, 1906-1967
Publication
New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.

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Additional Authors
Kramer, Paul, 1914-2008.
Description
xxv, 310 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Wo de qian ban sheng. English
Alternative Title
Wo de qian ban sheng.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Autobiographies
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1967.
  • Translated from Chinese.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. My youth -- A brief restoration -- My wedding -- Family clashes -- Dispersal of the eunuchs -- Reorganizing the Household Department -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. 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 -- pt. 5. My captivity -- Five years in the Soviet Union -- Back to Manchuria--a prisoner -- Isolated -- Intensified brainwashing -- Self-pity -- Conditions improve -- A special pardon -- pt. 6. My new life -- The Forbidden City, revisited -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9781602397323 (pbk.)
  • 1602397325 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2009024919
OCLC
  • 320193182
  • SCSB-12206408
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library