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| | 'Last Emperor,' an Epic |
 | | Pu Yi was an accident of meteorology, the calm, rather empty center of the political hurricane that was blowing around him and that defined his place in history. |
 | | Pu Yi was a cipher compared to the remarkable characters who, in one way or another, shaped his life and modern China - Tzu Hsui, the old, ferocious Empress Dowager, who brought the boy to the throne and promptly died, and the mutually warring revolutionaries, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. |
 | | Wan Jung (Joan Chen), Pu Yi's bride, is seen as a woman of some spirit who quickly adopts an opium habit to the disgust of her husband. |
| www.nytimes.com /1987/11/20/arts/last-emperor-oscars.html (1038 words) |
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