Product Description:
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China’s last eunuch Sun Yaoting died in December 1996 at age 94.He took with him intimate stories of the last vestiges of Imperial China
and was himself the 1ast in the line of eunuchs who had served the royal family for more than 2,000 years. His personal iourney from poor
farmboy to revered servant to PU Yi and Wanrong.China’S last emperor and empress,iS an amazing iourney which also chronicles nearly
one century of turbulence and upheavalin Chinese history and culture.
This engrossing biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua fcatures first.hand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden
City.his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese—held Manchukuo in the 1 930s.his return to“normal”1ifc as a community organizer in the Buddhist
temple where he livcd out the rest of his life.
About the author:
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Jia Yinghua is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice-president of the Society of Chinese Biographers.He is widely acknowledged as the Ieading source of historical materials on late—Qing Dynasty figures such as Pu Yi,the Iast emperor of China and Sun Yaoting, the Last eunuch.His
book.”Second Half Or the Last Emperor of China”was critically acclaimed by more than 100 Chinese and overseas media.
It was a follow-up to the book.”From Emperor to Citizen.”which was written by pu Yi in the 1960s.It won the Golden Key Prize for Books in
China.
Content:
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Prologue
1.Castration
1.The ChiefEunuch Comes Home
2.A ChildIlood Dream
3.The Castration
4.Private School
Prince Zai Tao’S Mansion
1.Arriving in the Capital
2.The Imperial Uncle
3.Loss ofthe Pigtail
4.The Restoration
5.Leaving Zai Tao
The Forbidden Citv
1.Entry into the Palace
2.ChiefEunuch Ren
3.High Consort Duankang
4.The Theatrical Troupe
5.Death ofEmperor's Mother
In the Red Walls
1.Head Eunuch Mu
2.The Accounting Office
3.Constant Learning
4.palace ofGreat Benevolence
5.Stories and Anecdotes
6.The Emperor's Wedding
7.Dispersal ofEunuchs
Serving the Imperial Couple
1.The Empress
2.Palace ofGathering Elegance
3.Languishing in Seclusion
4.The Capricious Emperor
5.nle Emperor's Secrets
Sunset in the Forbidden City
1.The Empress’s Birthday
2.The Expulsion
3.The Northern Mansion
4.Back at Home
Temple of Prosperity
1.Eunuch Sanctuary
2.Myriad Fates ofEunuchs
3.White—CloudTemple
4.Tales about Cixi
House Servant
1.Xiaode Zhang
2.Yao Mengshan
3.Prodigal Sons
Manchukuo
1.“New Capital”
2.Team ofOrderlies
3.Puppet Emperor
4.Visitors to the Palace
5.A Brutal Beating
6.Back at Home
Some Turbulent Years
1.An Amicable Japanese
2.Zha Qi'er
3.Silver Fish and Purple Crabs
4.Death ofChert Zechuan
Communist‘lhkeover
1.Temple ofGreat Bounty
2.L0rd Guall's Temple
3.People’s LiberationArmy
4.”Big Landlord”
After Liberation
1.An Investigation and a Lawsuit
2.The Fate ofXiaode Zhang
3.Back in the Temple ofProsperity.
4.Quarrels and Fights
Life in the New Society
1.Narrow Escape
2.A Forum ofEunuchs
3.TheGreatTurbulence
4.Homecoming in Disgrace
The Final Years
1.The Last Eunuch ofChina
2.Revisiting the Forbidden City
3.Peaceful Old Age
4.Secrets to Longevity
Gravestone in Silence
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