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Twilight in the Forbidden City: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History

Autor Reginald F. Johnston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2011
British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston's time in Beijing between 1919 and 1924, at the court of the Qing Dynasty, where he served as tutor to Aisin-Gioro Puyi (1906–1967), last emperor of China. Johnston was one of only two foreigners who were permitted to enter the imperial palace, and so his account provides a unique Western perspective on the epochal events of the period. The work has a preface by the emperor Puyi and includes detailed descriptions of palace rituals, including Puyi's wedding ceremony; translations of key documents; Johnston's perspective on the revolution of 1911 and the 1917 restoration; his observations on Chinese society as a whole; and eye-witness accounts of the political intrigues of the palace. The memoir was dramatised in Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematic masterpiece, The Last Emperor.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108029650
ISBN-10: 1108029655
Pagini: 572
Ilustrații: 36 b/w illus. 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; Preface; 1. The Reform Movement of 1898; 2. The collapse of the Reform Movement; 3. Reaction and the Boxer Movement, 1898–1901; 4. The last years of Kuang-Hsü, 1901–1908; 5. The Empress-Dowager, T`zǔ-Hsi; 6. The Revolution, 1911; 7. The 'Articles of Favourable Treatment' of the Manchu Imperial House; 8. The Ta Ch`ing and the Hung Hsien Emperors; 9. Change Hsün and the Restoration of 1917; 10. Autobiography of the Old Man of the Pine-Tree (translated from the Chinese); 11. The Forbidden City, 1919–1924; 12. The Imperial tutors; 13. The Manchu court in twilight; 14. The Imperial Household Department (Nei Wu Fu); 15. The dragon unfledged; 16. Monarchist hopes and dreams; 17. The dragon restless; 18. The dragon flaps his wings; 19. Dragon and phoenix; 20. Plots and stratagems; 21. The Imperial garden; 22. The summer palace; 23. The Fifth of November; 24. The dragon caged; 25. The flight of the dragon; Epilogue: the dragon goes home; Pedigree of the Manchu Emperors; Notes; Index.

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Johnson's account of the last years of the Chinese Qing dynasty provides a unique Western perspective on this historic period.