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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:460776314
Author : Puyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013398048
First published in Chinese in 1964 and then banned by the revolutionaries ten years later, this remarkable autobiography relays the story of a man who served twice as emperor of China, once as emperor of the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, and then underwent a complete re-education in the prisons of the Communist Chinese government, finally leading a life as an ordinary citizen. Placed on the throne in 1908 at the age of two, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi became the tenth ruler of the Ch'ing Dynasty and the last emperor of China. Forced to abdicate four years later but permitted to remain in the Forbidden City until the Ch'ing court lost power in 1924, Pu Yi spent his youth surrounded by the eunuchs, princes, cooks, consorts, tutors, and decadent, often wild excesses of the Imperial Palace. Recounting those early days, Pu Yi then describes his installation by the Japanese as puppet emperor in Manchuria, the defeat of Japan, his imprisonment in the Soviet Union, and his eventual forced return to the People's Republic of China in 1950. Re-educated in Chinese prisons, Pu Yi learned how to dress himself, work on an assembly line, and criticize his former uselessness and pride. Pu Yi ends the account with his release from prison--pardoned by the Communist Party--and the beginning of his new life as a gardener and then as a researcher of literary and historical materials. This fascinating account not only depicts an empire in the throes of death and the zeal of a new-born regime, but also reveals the tragic story of a man who was a helpless subject of family and government turmoils and not really a ruler at all.
Author : Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi,Emperor of China ChIng Hs"Uan-Tung
Publisher : China Books & Periodicals
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980-03-01
Category : China History 20th century
ISBN : 0835106195
Author : Philip Dwyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300190663
In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleon’s darker sides—his brooding obsessions and propensity for violence—as well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day.
Author : Pu Yi Aisin-Gioro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760112889
Author : 溥儀
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120064840
Author : Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:872380423
Author : Reginald F. Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108029650
Johnson's account of the last years of the Chinese Qing dynasty provides a unique Western perspective on this historic period.
Author : P`u-i
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1350612281
Author : Roderick J. Barman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0804744009
In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II's diaries and family papers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:460776314
Author : Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi,Qing Xuantong (China, Kaiser)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:500526946
Author : Puyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:59734204
Author : Edward Behr
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0553344749
Tells the story of Pu Yi, who became Emperor of China at age three, was made puppet emperor of Manchuria by the Japanese, was captured by the Russians, and was reeducated in Red Chinese prison
Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430212
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.