1983 1st edition "First published in Great Britain by The House of Fans...September 1983"; by Neville John Irons; The House of Fans Limited publishers, London; hardbound in black boards with gilt stamp cursive lettering along spine; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
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In the fall of the Ming Dynasty was an episode in Chinese history, the abdication of the last Emperor of the Ch'ing Imperial House in 1912, was a major event in world history.  The whole story has never been told in the West, now, it is for the first time; the tragic life of Aisin-Gioro P'u-yi, the Hsuan-t'ung Emperor, who asended the Dragon Throne in 1908 at the age of three and who was swept along throught the bloodshed of successive revolutions on into the chaso of the war-lord period...