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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS773 .C51513 2010 | Off-site |
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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.
- Subject
- 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