Title : Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City - Shi Dan - book
Summary :
Yu Chunhe, a eunuch in the palace of Empress Xiaoding, gives us this exceptional account of the daily lives of castrati and their masters. Entering the Forbidden City in 1898 at the age of seventeen, he spent eighteen terrible years there, marked by the war against foreigners, the exile of the court to Xian, the revolution, and the fall of the empire.
His memoirs, rich in intrigue and acerbic portraits of court insiders, teach us much more than an official history book. An edifying description of the morals of an era, its decadence and corruption, Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City constitutes a unique historical document, but is above all the moving account of the tragic fate of a teenager sold to the child traffickers of Beijing who supplied the imperial palace with eunuchs.
Yu Chunhe reveals what has often been hidden about the private lives of these innocents, forcibly castrated and then imprisoned within the walls of the Forbidden City where they were treated as slaves according to the whim of their masters.
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EAN: 9782877302388
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