The Last Manchu The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, the Last Emperor of China

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and wrinkled spots (mostly to the spine ends) and some small edge chips missing. This book, written by Henry Pu Yi and edited by Paul Kramer was the basis for the movie The Last Emperor and tells the story of the boy who became emperor of China at age 2 (or 3 when using Chinese dating) , lived for nearly twenty years in the Forbidden City before being expelled and imprisoned by the Soviets and Red Chinese. "The Xuantong Emperor (7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) , better known by his personal name Puyi, was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty. He was later ruler of the puppet state of Manchukuo under the Empire of Japan from 1934 to 1945. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate at the age of six in 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution. His era name as Qing emperor, Xuantong , means "proclamation of unity". Puyi was briefly restored to the throne as Qing emperor by the loyalist General Zhang Xun from 1 July to 12 July 1917. He was first wed to Empress Wanrong in 1922 in an arranged marriage. In 1924, he was expelled from the Forbidden City and found refuge in Tianjin, where he began to court both the warlords fighting for hegemony over China and the Japanese who had long desired control of China. In 1932, after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the puppet state of Manchukuo was established by Japan, and he was chosen to become the chief executive of the new state using the era name of "Datong". " (from Wikipedia) .