From Emperor to Citizen

出版者:外文出版社

作者:爱新觉罗·溥仪

页数:496

译者:W. J. F. Jenner

出版时间:2002-1

价格:48.00元

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9787119007724

图书标签:历史人文溥仪迷幻近代史轻音乐買了未讀英文原版

From Emperor to Citien is the

autobiography of Pu Yi, the man who

was the last emperor of China. A

unique memoir of the first half of the

20th century as seen through the eyes

of one born to be an absolute

monarch, the book begins with the

author's vivid account of the last,

decadent days of the Ching Dynasty,

and closes with an introspective

self-portrait of the last Ching emperor

transformed into a retiring scholar

and citizen of the People's Republic

of China.

In detailing the events of the fifty

years between his ascension to the

throne and the final period of his life

as a quiet-living resident of Beijing,

Pu Yi reveals himself to be first and

foremost a survivor, caught up in the

torrent of global power struggles and

world conflict that played itself out

on the Asian continent through many

decades of violence and upheaval.

This firsthand description of the

dramatic events of Pu Yi's life was the

basis for the intemationally acclaimed

1987 Bemardo Bertolucci film The

Last Emperor which was named Best

Picture of the Year by the American

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and

Sciences. From Emperor to Citizen

readily lends itself to cinematic

adaptation as a personal narrative of

continuously significant and revea-

ling episodes.

Becoming emperor and then

forced to abdicate with the

establishment of the Republic of

China in 1911, all before he is seven

years old, Pu Yi continues to live in

the Forbidden City for another

decade, still treated as the Son of

Heaven by the moribund Ching court,

but in reality a virtual prisoner, with

little genuine human contact apart

from his beloved nurse Mrs. Wang,

his teacher Chen Pao-shen and his

English tutor Reginald Johnston.

When at the age of nineteen Pu Yi

is finally forced to vacate his isolated

existence within the Forbidden City,

he begins his long odyssey as the

dependent of the occupying imperial

Japanese regime, first in Tientsin, and

eventually installed as "emperor" of

the Japanese puppet state styled

Manchukuo in China's northeast

provinces. With the defeat of Japan

and the end of the Second World War,

Pu Yi faces a very uncertain future as

he is shunted off to Russia for five

years before retuming to a new China

transformed by revolution, where he

is confined in the Fushun War

Criminal Prison. Here he undergoes

several years of rehabilitation,

"learning how to become a human

being," as he calls it, before receiving

an official pardon and being allowed

to finally live as an ordinary citizen of

Beijing.

This autobiography is the culmi-

nation of a unique and remarkable

life, told simply, directly and frankly

by a man whose circumstances and

experiences were like no other.

读后感

我一直在想，溥仪到底有没有说真话。 这本书带有很强的传奇色彩，所以还是很吸引人的。但不得不说，溥仪的那些口号，那些批判，有着强烈的XX色彩。我们有理由相信，他在写作这本书的时候是处在某种压力之下，或者，带有自保的心理。 看溥仪这个人，本事没多少，但是非常善于权...  

从开始看到最后，都是那种皇帝向新社会的愧疚和谢罪。 社会形态不是自己所能决定的，不要把扭曲的社会全算成自己的罪过吧。  

有谁把溥仪当作一个人，一个有血有肉的人，一个有七情六欲的人，而不是工具呢？ 慈禧太后没有，溥仪是他继续控制政治的工具。 摄政王没有，溥仪的存在保证他继续受到优待，以及一年四万八千量的银子。 太监和内务府没有，溥仪是他们的钱袋子。 年近二十岁的溥仪，被囚禁在...  

看到附录里福贵人说他的话，觉得比他自己写的好。 觉得他说话拖着长腔，吃斋饭，看昆曲，念佛，比被改造的那个历史研究员，更像我心里的末代皇帝。 一个满清的，没落的，失意的，皇帝，到底是个什么样的人呢？ 从照片上看，窄脸盘子，细眼睛，大牙，说不上是个隽秀的年轻人。 ...  

看到附录里福贵人说他的话，觉得比他自己写的好。 觉得他说话拖着长腔，吃斋饭，看昆曲，念佛，比被改造的那个历史研究员，更像我心里的末代皇帝。 一个满清的，没落的，失意的，皇帝，到底是个什么样的人呢？ 从照片上看，窄脸盘子，细眼睛，大牙，说不上是个隽秀的年轻人。 ...  

用户评价

不知馋了多少水份：）

不知馋了多少水份：）

1.17-4.7，疫情期间英语学习。《我的前半生》英译本，潘家园买的。没看过中文原版。兼学英语和历史。跌宕起伏，悲剧人生，以及重新做人。在后半部分，一直怀疑一个人真的能被改造吗？如果是真的，那我党思想改造的本事太大了。如果是真的，那最后两节让人感动得想流泪——特赦和回到北京，以及那个最后才揭露的真相。

不知馋了多少水份：）

很好的书。结合末代皇帝这部电影来看。