On a cold and bitter plain one day last week 28-year-old Henry Pu Yi, last of the Manchus, stood in dragon-embroidered robes, worshipped at the Altar of Heaven, and returning to his small ...

In the bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his ...