The Last Emperor of China by Wang Qingxiang

After a five-year detention in a prisoner-of-war collection post in Khabarovsk in the USSR, and a subsequent, ten-year, period of reformation in the Fushun War Criminal Prison in China, how did Puyi, China's last Feudal Emperor, finally become a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference?

What were his experiences during the Cultural Revolution? These questions, and other key themes, are addressed in this book.

Table of Contents

Special Amnesty

1. Date to Start a New Life

2. Leaving for Beijing.

3. Arrival in Beijing

4. The Happy Reunion of the Aisin-Gioro Clan

5. Opening to a New Page

Gardener

1. The First Job

2. Joining the Cause to Construct a Socialist Society

3. Learning to Live the Life of a Citizen.

4. A Chinese Person's Pride

5. Pujie Coming Back

A Historical Researcher

1. Becoming a Commissioner of Historical Research

2. Working as a Historical Researcher.

3. Puyi's New Colleagues

4. Writing and Publishing His Autobiography

Puyi and His Five Wives

1. The Marriage Tragedies in the First Half of his Life

2. Love, in the Twilight of Puyi's Life

3. Honeymoon

4. A Painful Topic

Home Life

1. Food, Clothing and Shelter

2. Puyi's Interests in Culture

3. Puyi's Differences from Ordinary People

Delightful Tours around China

1. Revisiting Familiar Places

2. Tour to Southeast China

3. Tour of Northwest China

A Private Citizen

1. Dragon returning to a Man's World

2. Voting for Representatives for the People's Congress

3. Changing Way of Thought

4. Concerning State Affairs.

5. Never Forgetting Reformation

6. Caring for Others

Political Life

1. Attending a Session of the CPPCC as a Non-Voting Delegate

2. Mounting the Stand of Tian'anmen Square

3. Commemorating the Incident of September 18th.

4. Shaking Hands with Former Political Opponents.

5. Speech at Congress Session of the CPPCC

6. 1962 to 1964, the Happiest Period in Puyi's Life.

7. Becoming a Member of the CPPCC

8. The Last Emperor and the Last President Shaking Hands in Beijing

9. Celebrating National Day 1965.

10. Twin Reappearances on Public Occasions during the Cultural Revolution

Receiving Foreign Friends

1. Receiving Foreign Friends at Beijing Botanical Garden.

2. Receiving Congressman Abefumio.

3. Talking with a Correspondent from Uruguay

4. A Record of Puyi's Interview with Foreign Friends

5. Responses in Illness to Visitors' Questions

In the Cultural Revolution

1. From Earnest Belief to Suspicion

2. In the Time of "Drawing Fire on Themselves"

3. In "Red August" of 1966

4. The Torrents of the Cultural Revolution Finally Reach Puyi.

5. The First Half of My Life Denounced

6. "Imperial Concubine Rebelling"

7. The Denunciation of"The Inside Story of the Qing Imperial Palace"

Suffering from Cancer and Passing Away

I. Kidney Cancer, Which Failed to be Diagnosed Promptly .

2. In the Peking Union Medical College Hospital

3. Complicated Treatment

4. The Peking Union Medical College Hospital Turned into "The Opposing Imperialism Hospital".

5. The Last Words

6. Puyi's Memorial - Thirteen Years Late

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ China Intercontinental Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2013

Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 296 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 7508524519

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9787508524511

About the Author

Wang Qingxiang, researcher from Jilin Provincial Academy of Social Svience, vice-president of Changchun Puyi Study Society, is a famous expert in the study of Puyi and his family.