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Twilight in the Forbidden City

de Reginald F. Johnston

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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.… (més)

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From Emperor to Citizen de Puyi (edwinbcn)
edwinbcn: Pu Yi did not particularly like Johnston, so Johnston is all but omitted from the autobiography. However, Johnston's books gives a lot of insight into the historical and technical backgrounds of the Forbidden City Household.
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Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the Court of the Last Emperor de Raymond Lamont-Brown (edwinbcn)
edwinbcn: "Tutor to the Dragon Emperor" is the only, not very inspired, biography of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston.

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Learned inside witness of the last court of China. (

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MalinNN | Oct 17, 2017 |

Valuable historic document, but the Last Emperor's tutor's account of his time in China is not as interesting as many other Westerners' accounts (see John Blofeld, for instance), nor is he a particularly reliable narrator. (

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datrappert | Oct 18, 2016 |

The turbulent life of the Man who was both Emperor to China and it's not arrogant or prideful Citizen. Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and the youth militia known as the Red Guards.

Was courted by the Japanese who had acquired the former German concessions in Manchuria In order to bring the region under their control the Imperial Japanese Army for China's last emperor Puyi to live in as part of his role as Emperor of the Japanese (

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tonynetone | Jul 26, 2015 |

Reginald Johnston helps us to see the last emperor of China for the human he was; caught in a world not of his own making. Did Johnston fail the emperor on a personal level by not getting him out of China, say to Oxford, before he was married off? (

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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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