Word: manchus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life a helpless tool of one agency or another, Pu Yi has longed to dodge the trappings of state and lead the life of a normal western youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth...
Changchun was sure that Manchukuo's real ruler, not the puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
...week that if Henry Pu Yi is to return to his old home in the spring, that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of the solid magnificence that the Manchus gave Peiping. With the Forbidden City treasure to deck Nanking (there is as yet no fit place in Nanking to display it) the new city will have the dignity befitting a great capital...
Though she had won so much, Concubine Shu Fei still smarted last week under the rebukes of her brother. He, a confirmed bootlicker of Manchus, had reminded her by letter that the duty of an Imperial concubine is, of course, to commit suicide rather than displease her lord. Conscious of this moral duty, Shu Fei cried last week, "But I had planned to kill myself, I swear...