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1. 1. Twilight In The Forbidden City

   

   A firsthand memoir by the British tutor of China’s last emperor that paints an intimate, vividly detailed portrait of daily life, ritual, and intrigue inside the sealed world of the Forbidden City; it blends personal reminiscence and cultural observation to show the isolation and fragility of imperial authority, the personalities and power struggles of court figures, and the slow, sometimes absurd decline of a vanished dynasty as modern politics encroach and the young sovereign grows up under layers of ceremony and constraint.

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