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 · 11 days ago

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 · 10 days ago

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 · 10 days ago

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