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1) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. This is very nice used book that was delivered very quickly. I like this seller and will continue to use them in the future.¤ 2) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. I bought this book when I was in Holiday in Malaysia. I have always been fascinated by Pu Yi. How he felt being on the dragon throne and falling from the greatest height and living through it and reforming is such a fantastic story.
I think his story is fair portrayal of his life though in the ending it was a bit tinted to glorify the communist party. But overall it gave a good assessment of his life, his pains, his cowardice and most of all his reformation to a citizen.
You could almost feel his anguish as he was writing it.
I would highly recommend this book as I could not put it down since I bought it.¤ 3) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. This book says about a peson´s life full of sadness
and incredible events.
One day, all of a sudden, Japan full of ambition and burning desire of invasion ivaded China.
China was less stong than Japan that introduced modern weapons
and various systems from western countries.
China which didn´t realize about the fact how much the world was changing didn´t open its gate toward other countries and it caused China to weaken more and more.
Finally Japan invaded China in the twinking of an eye
when China is in plaid and calm state!
Unfortunately, every Chinese had to suffer inexpressibly painful
experience in their lives because of the war that was broken out by Japan.
´Pu Yi´ emperor, who is hero of this book, was one of whom get hurt from that pain.
He was crowned as emperor of Ching Dynasty by a dowager who had power
and authority at the time.
Thanks to the fact that he was emperor,
he enjoyed the privilege of being emperor of a country.
A lot of eunuchs and servants served him and he could taste
as colorful foods as he pleases!
It must have been a fabulous privilege to him!
But the happiness and joy didn´t last for a long time.
After he became emperor, one day Japan invaded China
and broke out war.
As a result of sudden situation, China had been thrown into
chaos of the horrible war and became one of the colony of Japan.
And emperor Pu yi, who is just this book´s sorrowful hero, had to be manipulated by the Japan´s government.
He had been degenerated into a puppet of the goverment of Japan.
In a word, Ching Dynasty was nothing but a puppet goverment of Japan.
It was really heartbreaking situation!
Japan meddled in every affairs that had to be carried out
by Ching Dynasty and controlled everything that happens in China.
Thanks to meddlesome Japan, China, or rather, ´Ching dynasty´
began to wane rapidly.
No matter how powerful the Ching Dymasty was in the past,
Ching Dynasty´s shining glory and power had been waned by Japan
that was a just tiny island country in a map in the past.
To make a long story short,
Ching Dynasty began to wane day by day.
Ching Dynasty, or rather, China is a country that is repleate
of proud and confience and such China´s aspect is expressed
as ´Sinocentrism´.
China was a country that regarded itself as the most powerful
country that stand in the center of the world.
But the sudden invasion of Japan gave inexplicable insult to
China.
At that time, truly many drastic events occured in China
and China started chaning.
Finally Pu yi, emperor of Ching Dynasty,
had to be the last emperor of Ching Dynasty.
As a result of drastic change of China,
he was forced to abdicate with the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911.
After abdicating from his throne,
he became nothing but a citizen of China.
Meanwhile, Communists started to administer China.
Pu Yi who had been turned into a citizen from his throne
began to live as an ordinary person.
He says about a lot of things occured in his life
through this book.
Reading this book, I experienced lots of things!
This book is gripping and exciting book tell us about
a man´s adventure.
I would love to recommend a person who want to understand
and learn about China´s history to read this book.
This book is not a biography but autobiography that is written
by the last emperor of China Dynasty.
He was a eyewitness of the time full of chaos and drastic
change that occured in China.
That´s why this book is excellent in comparison with any of book
that deal with China´s modern history.
I convinced that readers will be able to broaden their
insight by reading this book that is culmination of a person
who experienced incredible and astonishing experience
in his whole life.
¤ 4) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. Pu Yi Last Emperor of China, his life, and his death.Considering that the book is a translation I think it was very well written,bringing out the past,the present and what happened to Pu Yi at the end of his life.The book is very easy to read considering that it is an autobiography.It has many black and white pictures. This book encouraged me to trace the life of Pu Yi which I was lucky to do,right before Tianmen Square incident.
I hired a Mandarin taxi driver and ask him to take me around and trace Pu Yi´s life from the Forbidden City to his last residence.
I went around and did all that.However I was not allowed to go to the Prisons.It is a military area.
I saw the places in the Forbidden City,the house that he lived in after being reformed.The house were he lived with his wife the nurse.Finally I was allowed to go into the cemetery were his remains are in a very small sinnabar wooden box, with a small oval picture,and his name Pu Yi.He is burried way behind the big shots that came and died after him.You must really look to find him.I was lucky enough to do this,as it so happened that the movie of Bertolucci The Last Emperor of China had come out.In China Chinese people love Italians.So when they asked me are you American I said no Italia.They answered ah Marco Polo.Isn´t that funny?
I suggest that you read this book if you are fascinated with the Chinese culture.After all what happened,happened and things cannot change.Our daughter also did a paper in High School about the Last Emperor of China using this book as a guide.I hope that this was useful to you,I enjoyed it very much.¤ 5) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. The first half of the book is interesting in that it gives some sense of the way an emperor lived and was influenced by his court and provides a description of historic events by the eyewitness. However, the second part of the book can only be read with a smile by anyone, like myself, who lived in the Soviet Union.¤ 6) Hardcover Book From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Foreign Languages Press. From Emperor to Citizen is the autobiography of Pu Yi, the man who was the last emperor of China. A unique memoir of the first half of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of one born to be an absolute monarch, the book begins with the author´s vivid account of the last, decadent days of the Ching Dynasty, and closes with an introspective self-portrait of the last Ching emperor transformed into a retiring scholar and citizen of the People´s Republic of China. In detailing the events of the fifty years between his ascension to the throne and the final period of his life as a quiet-living resident of Beijing. Pu Yi reveals himself to be first and foremost a survivor, caught up in the torrent of global power struggles and world conflict that played itself out on the Asian continent through many decades of violence and upheaval. This firsthand description of the dramatic events of Pu Yi´s life was the basis for the internationally acclaimed 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor which was named Best Picture of the Year by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From Emperor to Citizen readily lends itself to cinematic adaptation as a personal narrative of continuously significant and revealing episodes. Becoming emperor and then forced to abdicate with the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, all before he is seven continues to live in Forbidden City for another decade still treated as the Son of Heaven by the moribund Ching court, but in reality a virtual prisoner, with little genuine human contact apart from his beloved nurse Mrs. Wang, his teacher Chen Pao-shen and his English tutor Reginald Johnston. When at the age of nineteen Pu Yi is finally forced to vacate his isolated existence within the Forbidden City, he begins his long odyssey as the dependent of the occupying imperial Japanese regime, first in Tientsin, and eventually installed as "emperor" of the Japanese puppet state styled Manchukuo in China´s northeast provinces. With the defeat of Japan and the end of the Second World War, Pu Yi faces a very uncertain future as he is shunted off to Russia for five years before returning to a new China transformed by revolution, where he is confined in the Fushun War Criminal Prison. Here he undergoes several years of rehabilitation, "learning how to become a human being," as he calls it, before receiving an official pardon and being allowed to finally live as an ordinary citizen of Beijing. This autobiography is the culmination of a unique and remarkable life, told simply, directly and frankly by a man whose circumstances and experiences were like no other.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 1-Oct-2008, 71190077269787119007724, 980-520-081-326-267-IWB-8 
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