The American Angle to The Last Emperor of China – for Amcham HK

Who was the American present at the final days of the imperial court in the Forbidden City in the 1920s – a missionary’s daughter from Philadelphia, born and raised in northern China, graduate of Wellesley and, fortunately, an ardent diarist and letter writer!! I tell her story here, and why she made a new version of the last emperor (and empresses) story both new and vital…. For the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong magazine…. click here to read…