10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PU-YI»
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1
The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry
Pu Yi, Last ...
The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China Henry Pu Yi Paul
Kramer. “ENGROSSING . . . Pu Yi's picture of life as an Emperor who never had a
chance to rule . . . is full of interest to a Western reader.” —PittsburghPress
Stripped ...
Henry Pu Yi, Paul Kramer, 2013
The Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, better known outside his realm as Henry
Pu Yi, has been sitting on one throne or another as long as he can remember, the
Orchid Throne which he occupies at present being the third. He cannot, in fact, ...
Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, finds his wet nurse, a beautiful woman, sitting at
the side of a lily pond somewhere in Peking's Forbidden City. They hold hands,
gazing fondly into each other's eyes, and at last the nurse uncovers a perfect ...
4
The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci
The expulsion scene, a flashback told to the prison's governor (the analyst) from
Pu Yi's point of view, is linked through editing to the scene in which Pu Yi has sex
with both wives. In the expulsion scene, Pu Yi is seen standing on a wall, a wife ...
5
The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures
She offers herself with insulting casualness to Pu Yi, but her real function is to
isolate him from any influence but that of his new mentors. It is not a difficult task.
As Pu Yi relapses into his childhood fantasy of omnipotence, he regresses to a ...
Laurence Goldstein, Ira Konigsberg, 1996
6
Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures (cl)
Pu Yi soon escaped from his father's home and the Japanese then offered him a
large house in Tianjin and the protection of the Japanese consulate, where he
remained from 1925 to 1931. Pu Yi apparently had a sense of humor and could ...
7
Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold
When he first offered to make Pu Yi an emperor again, the young man hesitated.
With plenty of money and amusement, why should Pu Yi involve himself in
tedious ritual and protocol? Doihara insisted. To make his point, he sent Pu Yi a ...
Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave, 2003
8
Bertolucci's The Last Emperor: Multiple Takes
When Pu Yi fantasizes unrealistically about escape to the West, Johnston is wise
enough to encourage him instead to attempt to confront the reality of his life (
barren though it may be) inside the Forbidden City, and achieve mastery over it.
9
The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China
Pu Yi, the last emperor of Imperial China, describes in his autobiography how he
admired and tried to imitate his Scottish teacher, Reginald Johnston, who was
solicited by the Palace to teach English to the thirteen-year-old emperor.69 In Pu
...
10
The Encyclopedia of Epic Films
Pu Yi replies, “I am the lord often thousand years.” The man picks up a razor
blade, looks at him and says, “If you really wanted to die, you would have
succeeded.” Pu Yi says, “They'll kill me anyway.” The man replies, “Whatever
happens, ...
Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito, 2014
