British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston's time in Beijing between 1919 and 1924, at the court of the Qing Dynasty, where he served as tutor to Aisin-Gioro Puyi (1906 1967), last emperor of China. Johnston was one of only two foreigners who were permitted to enter the imperial palace, and so his account provides a unique Western perspective on the epochal events of the period. The work has a preface by the emperor Puyi and includes detailed descriptions of palace rituals, including...
British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston...
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) was a colonial administrator and scholar with a lifelong fascination with China who was appointed tutor to the young Puyi (1906 1967), who became emperor at the age of two. Johnston was highly favoured by the emperor, receiving several imperial titles and residing in the Forbidden City. His account of his time as Puyi's tutor, Twilight in the Forbidden City, also reissued in this series, was dramatised in the film The Last Emperor. Previously, Johnston had served in a variety of colonial service positions, including three years as commissioner of the...
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) was a colonial administrator and scholar with a lifelong fascination with China who was appointed tutor to t...
