The Last Emperor of China: The Life of Aisin-Gioro Puyi Hans Bertens Ariadne and her sister Phaedra

Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace

Starting over on a new continent

and me      Remembering again that I shall die      And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks      For washing me cleaner than I have been       Since I was born into this solitude

and how Peter copes with the pressure of high expectation

reward and human expectations

The Last Emperor of China: The Life of Aisin-Gioro Puyi Hans Bertens Ariadne and her sister PhaedraAfter a five year detention in a prisoner of war collection post in Khabarovsk in the USSR, and a subsequent, ten year, period of reformation in the Fushun War Criminal Prison in China, how did Puyi, China's last feudal emperor, finally become a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference? What were his experiences during the Cultural Revolution? These questions, and other key themes, are addressed in this book.