I heard the last Chinese emporer Puyi was given the job of a gardener, and was finally happy. This sounds like a nice ending. I'd like to read about it if you have a good source.

HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 8か月前

I heard the last Chinese emporer Puyi was given the job of a gardener, and was finally happy. This sounds like a nice ending. I'd like to read about it if you have a good source.

HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 8か月前

With those CWs, mainly about Japanese colonialism, I’m putting it on the backburner. But I’m truly intending to read the book one day.

Would you also say this is a rough journey towards him finally having friends for the first time?

built_on_hope [she/her]@hexbear.net · 8か月前

I think it’s definitely redemptive in the sense that he slowly starts to see other humans as people, not subjects. To me the biggest takeaway was that communist re-education, combined with a fair society, is effective: if it can work on him it can work on anyone