The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City
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New York Times bestselling author Paul French tells the extraordinary story of the last Emperor of China and the final two years during which he and his court occupied Peking’s secretive Forbidden City.
A monarch without a crown, a ruler without a people, an emperor without a realm.
In the early 1920s, the former-Emperor of China, Puyi and his Empress, Wanrong, were sequestered inside Peking’s ancient Forbidden City. Surrounded by scheming courtiers, fawning servants, and corrupt eunuchs, Pu...






















