TWILIGHT IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY by Reginald F. Johnston ( 9781108029650 )

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TWILIGHT IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY

By:

Reginald F. Johnston

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1108029655

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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

Pub. date:

30 June, 2011

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History

Pages:

572

Description:

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

Synopsis:

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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36 b/w illus. 2 maps

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Cambridge University Press

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