Reginald F. Johnston (1874–1938)

Learned inside witness of the last court of China.

Valuable historic document, but the Last Emperor's tutor's account of his time in China is not as interesting as many other Westerners' accounts (see John Blofeld, for instance), nor is he a particularly reliable narrator.

The turbulent life of the Man who was both Emperor to China and it's not arrogant or prideful Citizen. Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and the youth militia known as the Red Guards.

Was courted by the Japanese who had acquired the former German concessions in Manchuria In order to bring the region under their control the Imperial Japanese Army for China's last emperor Puyi to live in as part of his role as Emperor of the Japanese

Reginald Johnston helps us to see the last emperor of China for the human he was; caught in a world not of his own making. Did Johnston fail the emperor on a personal level by not getting him out of China, say to Oxford, before he was married off?