Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9787508524511
Published on: 2013-03
Soft Cover
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
Special Amnesty l. Date to Start a New Life 1 2. Leaving for Beijing8 3. Arrival in B eijing 12 4. The Happy Reunion of the Aisin-Gioro Clan23 5. Opening to a New Page35 Gardener 1. The First Job40 2. Joining the Cause to Construct a Sot Society45 3. Learning to Live the Life of a Citizen49 4. A Chinese Person's Pride51 5. Pujie Coming Back54 A Historical Researcher 1. Becoming a Commissioner of Historical Research71 2. Working as a Historical Researcher75 3. Puyi's New Colleagues79 4. Writing and Publishing His Autobiography87 Puyi and His Five Wives 1. The Marriage Tragedies in the First Half of his Life96 2. Love, in the Twilight of Puyi's Life 107 3. Honeymoon 110 4. A Painful Topic 116 Home Life 1. Food, Clothing and Shelter 122 2. Puyi's Interests in Culture126 3. Puyi's Differences from Ordinary People132 Delightful Tours around China 1. Revisiting Familiar Places 138 2. Tour to Southeast China 144 3. Tour of Northwest China 158 A Private Citizen 1. Dragon returning to a Man's World 167 2. Voting for Representatives for the People's Congress 171 3. Changing Way of Thought172 4. Concerning State Affairs 174 5. Never Forgetting Reformation 176 6. Caring for Others 178 Political Life 1. Attending a Session of the CPPCC as a Non-Voting Delegate 181 2. Mounting the Stand of Tian'anmen Square 183 3. Commemorating the Incident of September 18th 185 4. Shaking Hands with Former Political Opponents 187 5. Speech at Congress Session of the CPPCC190 6. 1962 to 1964, the Happiest Period in Puyi's Life191 7. Becoming a Member of the CPPCC195 8. The Last Emperor and the Last President Shaking Hands in Beijing 198 9. Celebrating National Day 1965202 10. Twin Reappearances on Public Occasions during the Cultural Revolution203 Receiving Foreign Friends 1. Receiving Foreign Friends at Beijing Botanical Garden207 2. Receiving Congressman Abefumio210 3. Talking with a Correspondent from Uruguay213 4. A Record of Puyi's Interview with Foreign Friends216 5. Responses in Illness to Visitors' Questions224 In the Cultural Revolution 1. From Earnest Belief to Suspicion229 2. In the Time of"Drawing Fire on Themselves"232 3. In "Red August" of 1966236 4. The Torrents of the Cultural Revolution Finally Reach Puyi241 5. The First Half of My Life Denounced248 6. "Imperial Concubine Rebelling"251 7. The Demmciafion of"The Inside Story of the Qing Imperial Palace"256 Suffering from Cancer and Passing Away 1. Kidney Cancer, Which Failed to be Diagnosed Promptly 259 2. In the Peking Union Medical College Hospital262 3. Complicated Treatment264 4. The Peking Union Medical College Hospital Turned into "The Opposing Imperialism Hospital"265 5. The Last Words270 6. Puyi's Memorial - Thirteen Years Late275
