The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting
by Jia Yinghua [贾英华]
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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 last in the line of eunuchs who had served the royal family for more than 2000 years. His personal iourney from poor farmboy to revered servant to Pu Yi and Wanrong, China's last emperor and empress, is an amazing journey which also chronicles nearly one century of turbulence and upheaval in Chinese history and culture. This engrossing show more biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua features firsthand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden City, his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese-held Manchukuo in the 1930s and his return to "normal" life as a community organizer in the Buddhist temple where he lived out the rest of his life. show lessTags
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edwinbcn Life in the Forbidden City, and the transition from Imperial Power to New China, and the stages in between. This book presents the view from a servant. Excellent companion of The Life of the Last Emperor, which presents the view from the ruler.
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- 2008-10 (English edition) (English edition)
- People/Characters
- Pu Yi; Empress Dowager Cixi; Sun Yaoting
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- Forbidden City, Beijing, China
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