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

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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,;Title Page; Epigraph; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; I -- MY CHILDHOOD; 1 -- Coronation and Abdication; 2 -- Living as Emperor; 3 -- 2 Mothers2 and Son; 4 -- My Wet Nurse; 5 -- Eunuchs; 6 -- Studying in the Yu Ching Palace; 7 -- Reginald Johnston-My British Tutor; II -- MY YOUTH; 8 -- A Brief Restoration; 9 -- My Wedding; 10 -- Family Clashes; 11 -- Dispersal of the Eunuchs; 12 -- Reorganizing the Household Department; III -- MY EXILE; 13 -- From the Forbidden City to the Legation Quarter; 14 -- Tientsin; 15 -- Mausoleums and the Japanese; 16 -- Living in the Temporary Palace. Title Page Epigraph Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Introduction I -- MY CHILDHOOD 1 -- Coronation and Abdication 2 -- Living as Emperor 3 -- 2 Mothers2 and Son 4 -- My Wet Nurse 5 -- Eunuchs 6 -- Studying in the Yu Ching Palace 7 -- Reginald Johnston-My British Tutor II -- MY YOUTH 8 -- A Brief Restoration 9 -- My Wedding 10 -- Family Clashes 11 -- Dispersal of the Eunuchs 12 -- Reorganizing the Household Department III -- MY EXILE 13 -- From the Forbidden City to the Legation Quarter 14 -- Tientsin 15 -- Mausoleums and the Japanese 16 -- Living in the Temporary Palace. 17 -- The Unquiet "Quiet" Garden18 -- Crossing the White River IV -- MY FOURTEEN-YEAR RESTORATION 19 -- Chief Executive of Manchukuo 20 -- Imperial Dreams 21 -- The Treaty 22 -- Emperor for the Third Time 23 -- Illusions Vanish 24 -- Yasunori Yoshioka-My Adviser 25 -- Majesty. Without Powder 26 -- Collapse V -- MY CAPTIVITY 27 -- Five Years in the Soviet Union 28 -- Back to Manchuria-A Prisoner 29 -- Isolated 30 -- Intensified Brainwashing 31 -- Self-Pity 32 -- Conditions Improve 33 -- A Special Pardon VI -- MY NEW LIFE 34 -- The Forbidden City-Revisited Epilogue.