Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relationship whatever between Pu Yi...
...Yi is, as I had stated, the grandson of the Empress Dowager's early lover, he is also her grandnephew...
TIME gladly repairs such damage as may have been done by ambiguity: fumes of carbon monoxide (from autos) are a definite poison to the blood; fumes of carbon dioxide are fatal only as pure water can be fatal.-ED. Producing Pu Yi...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...
...three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists) against the Christian missionaries, stopped the massacres to make a sketch...