My Life as Emperor

by SuTong (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $4.18

  China's uniquely long history has been characterised as the embodiment of wise stewardship and an adherence to Confucian principles of humanity. My Life as Emperor tells the real story of incompetence, cruelty, decadence and an absence of concern for anyone's well-being but those holding power. It is a chilling yet enormously entertaining glimpse of the dark side of nation-building, as well as a vivid insight into the lives of the palace women and the surrounding court intrigue richly embroidered with extraordinary calamities and rampant slaughter.

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.24

  A tableau of life in the court of a child emperor, a boy of few talents and limited interests who displays a variety of recognizable and eternal human qualities, good and bad.