Twilight in the Forbidden CityCambridge University Press, 2011年6月30日 - 572 頁 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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VIII | 11 |
Introduction page | 19 |
The Collapse of the Reform Movement | 25 |
Reaction and the Boxer Movement 18981901 | 43 |
The Last Years of KuangHsii 19011908 | 50 |
The EmpressDowager Tzi1Hsi | 114 |
The Articles of Favourable Treatment of | 124 |
The Ta Ching and the Hung Hsien Emperors | 131 |
The Dragon Unfledged | 226 |
Monarchist Hopes and Dreams | 249 |
The Dragon Restless | 266 |
The Dragon Flaps His Wings | 278 |
Dragon and Phoenix | 304 |
Plots and Stratagems | 321 |
The Imperial Garden | 341 |
The Summer Palace | 354 |
Autobiography of the Old Man of the PineTree | 146 |
The Imperial Tutors | 165 |
The Manchu Court in Twilight | 196 |
The Imperial Household Department Nei Wu | 209 |
The Fifth of November page | 376 |
The Dragon Caged | 397 |
The Flight of the Dragon 41 2 | 412 |
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