Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction xv
I My Childhood
1 Coronation and Abdication 3
2 Living as Emperor 12
3 "Mothers" and Son 23
4 My Wet Nurse 29
5 Eunuchs 34
6 Studying in the Yu Ching Palace 43
7 Reginald Johnston-My British Tutor 50
II My Youth
8 A Brief Restoration 61
9 My Wedding 76
10 Family Clashes 83
11 Dispersal of the Eunuchs 93
12 Reorganizing the Household Department 98
III My Exile
13 From the Forbidden City to the Legation Quarter 107
14 Tientsin 120
15 Mausoleums and the Japanese 126
16 Living in the Temporary Palace 133
17 The Unquiet "Quiet" Garden 141
18 Crossing the White River 146
IV My Fourteen-Year Restoration
19 Chief Executive of Manchukuo 161
20 Imperial Dreams 166
21 The Treaty 169
22 Emperor for the Third Time 173
23 Illusions Vanish 182
24 Yasunori Yoshioka-My Adviser 187
25 Majesty Without Power 191
26 Collapse 199
V My Captivity
27 Five Years in the Soviet Union 209
28 Back to Manchuria-A Prisoner 218
29 Isolated 228
30 Intensified Brainwashing 247
31 Self-Pity 266
32 Conditions Improve 273
33 A Special Pardon 288
VI My New Life
34 The Forbidden City-Revisited 295
Epilogue 305
