The Last Eunuch of China-The Life of Sun Yaoting
Publisher:
China Intercontinental Press
Publication:
1/2008
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9787508514079
Pages:
314
Sizes:
160 x 230mm
Weight:
0.6300
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China's 1ast 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 2000 years His personal journey 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 upheavalin Chinese history and culture
This engrossing biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua features first, hand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden City, his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese-held Manchukuo in the 1930s his return to
This engrossing biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua features first, hand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden City, his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese-held Manchukuo in the 1930s his return to
This biography of the 'last eunuch of China' tells the life of Sun Yaoting, died in 1996 at age 94. Reading Sun's life brings us in an amazing journey into the Forbidden City. Unveiling the secret life of its inhabitants, this book also gives to know about its lively events, and about the great changes of Chinese 19th and 20th centuries.