THE LAST EMPEROR: The Life Of the Hsuan~t'ung Emperor Aisin~Gioro P'u~yi 1906~1967.

Irons, Neville John

ISBN 10: 0907918123 / ISBN 13: 9780907918127

Published by London. September 1983. The House Of Fans, 1983

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black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. underlined copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiny spot on top edge, other edges clean. almost every page underlined in red and blue ballpoint ink, also margin notes here and there throughout. dustwrapper in fine cond. minor rubbing & scratches on rear, not torn or price clipped. reading copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. first edition. first printing (FPuSeptember1983 & nap). decorative endpapers. ix+371p. 25 b&w illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. biography. chinese history. imperial china. ~ If the fall of the Ming Dynasty was an episode in Chinese history, the abdication of the last Emperor of the Ch'ing Imperial House in 1912, was a major event in world history. The whole story has never been told in the West, now, it is. for the first time; the tragic life of Aisin~Gioro P'u~yi, the Hsuan~t'uno Emperor, who ascended the Dragon Throne in 1908 at the age of three and who was swept along through the bloodshed of successive revolutions on into the chaos of the war~lord period. He continued to preside over a miniature court within the Forbidden City until 1924 when the Imperial Family were evicted at gun~point by the Nationalist 'Christian General'; exile followed, until in the 1930's he became Emperor of Manchukuo under the Japanese; at the end of the second World War he was imprisoned by the Soviets in Siberia; followed by another ten years in Chinese Communist prisons. He died as recently as 1967 as a humble clerk in his former capital Peking, where he had once been the 'Son of Heaven' and the 'Lord of Ten Thousand Years'. The author has drawn mainly on untranslated Chinese sources, including the ex~Emperor's own writings. The resulting biography is a masterwork of historical documentation which presents the true facts for the first time in the West. It is an unforgettable and heartrending story told in a fast~moving documentary style, a story that will remain in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned. Many rare and historic photographs are included throughout the text. Seller Inventory # 6272301

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Title: THE LAST EMPEROR: The Life Of the Hsuan~...

Publisher: London. September 1983. The House Of Fans

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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