From Emperor to Citizen. Better known as "The Last Emperor", after the Bertolucci Movie highlighting the life of Last Ching Emperor Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, "From Emperor to Citizen" is an epic and historically unique account of the turbulent life of the Man who was both Emperor to China and it's humble Citizen. Created with help of shadow writer (Li Wenda) and with the support of Premier and Communist Party Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai's Office, this autobiographical book must be viewed as a considerable (communist) propaganda attempt, but leaves the majority of it's impressive story intact, accurate and correct. Filled with interesting and charming details on the Ching Manchu Imperial Family, court affairs and customs, the Imperial Palace and it's many Halls, the eunuchs, chinese politics and many personal accounts of historic events and persons during the collapse and rebuilding of China, "From Emperor to Citizen" is a book that must be read by anyone truely interested in China's Imperial and recent history. Sit at the table with Emperor Pu Yi and his victorian english Tutor, the flamboyant but distinguished Reginald Flemming Johnston, share Pu Yi's earliest recollections of his entry into The Palace, the Dowagers and his Coronation and Crowning ceremonies. Read the Emperor's accounts of his troublesome personal life with his wife and concubine(s). Re-live the panicked days of seclusion, first at the continually threatened Imperial Palace, later held by the Japanese as puppet war-criminal Emperor and stooge. Finally, get a feel for life inside Fushun Prison, the Mind Control Prison of the Communist Party at Harbin, Heilongjiang, where the emperor was politically reformed and later pardonned. First printed in 1964, a treasure troth of inside information on late Ching Dynasty and succeeding years, the truely tragic fateful but catching life-story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, China's last Emperor, who abdicated in 1911 but lived through so much more there-after.

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