The Last Eunuch of China

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The Last Eunuch of China
The Last Eunuch of China
Author : Yinghua Jia
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Language : English
Release Date : 02 May 2024
ISBN : 7508514076
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The Last Eunuch of China by Yinghua Jia Book PDF Summary

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 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

The Last Eunuch of China

The Last Eunuch of China by Yinghua Jia

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

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