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

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.