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by Edward Behr · Macdonald & Company [Publishers] Ltd: Futura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780708834398
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«The Last Emperor» is the biography of the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, written by Edward Behr and published in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The work narrates the life of Pu Yi, last emperor of China: his enthronement as a child, his role as puppet emperor of Manchuria under the Japanese, his capture by the Soviets and his re-education in communist China. Behr also places this trajectory in the political and cultural context of the twentieth century.
The cover indicates the connection with the movie by Bernardo Bertolucci. Futura edition, 1987.
Aimed at readers interested in the history of China and political biography.
Edward Samuel Behr was a foreign correspondent and war journalist best known for his many years of work for Newsweek.
