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  Encyclopedia: Reginald Johnston
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston(1874~1938) was a Scottish Academic, diplomat and pedagogue and the teacher of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, and later appointed as commissioner of British-held Weihaiwei.
Johnston was born in the Morningside district of Edinburgh, the son of a lawyer.
Johnston died in Edinburgh and was quietly cremated at Warrison Crematorium, with his ashes scattered on his beloved Eilean Righ.
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 Reginald Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) was a Scottish academic, diplomat and pedagogue and the teacher of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, and later appointed as commissioner of British-held Weihaiwei.
When Pu Yi was expelled from the Old Palace in 1924, Johnston returned to Britain and became a professor at the School of Oriental Studies University of London.
Johnston's book Twilight in the Forbidden City, a bestseller in the 1930s, describes his experiences in Beijing and was used as a source for Bernardo Bertolucci's film dramatisation of Pu Yi's life The Last Emperor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reginald_Johnston   (281 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - News - Last emperor's Scots tutor revealed in attic pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Reginald Johnston, the son of a Morningside solicitor, led a remarkable life as diplomat, colonial administrator and tutor to the abdicated boy emperor Puyi.
Johnston always kept his Box Brownie camera handy, describing himself in one letter as a "keen snapshotter", as he moved in the highest circles in imperial China.
Johnston returned to Britain and briefly became a professor of Chinese studies in London before going back to China, where he succeeded Sir James as the last commissioner of Weihaiwei, overseeing its return to China.
heritage.scotsman.com /news.cfm?id=508062005   (883 words)

  
 Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnston is the name of a number of places:
Reginald Johnston, teacher of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China
The typeface used on the London Underground is named Johnston.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnston   (111 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Johnston was a project architect for the multiple-award-winning Governor's School while at Freeman and Major Architects.
Johnston employs three full-time and three part-time employees -- four of which are design professionals -- from his airy post-and-beam office in the top of the West End Market.
Where Johnston splits from some prominent local architecture minds is a belief in the small-time designer, he said, and his ability to be more flexible in varied partnerships.
greenvilleonline.com /news/business/2002/10/19/2002101930275.htm   (2014 words)

  
 Brennen Family Chronicles - Christopher E. Brennen
Reginald Lenrick Johnston was born in Pukekohe on Aug.17, 1909.
Craig Selwyn Johnston was born on Aug.29, 1958, in Howick and married Lia Rona Rapana.
Noel Johnston was born in 1935 and married Beverly Margaret Greer in 1963.
www.dankat.com /brennen/chap3.htm   (14297 words)

  
 John Stafford and Margaret Brunt
Reginald Evans Jennell was born on 29 May 1910.
Children were: Margaret Jane Johnston, Isaac Edward Johnston, George Milton Johnston, Frederick Williams Johnston, Sarah Anne Johnston, James Winton Johnston, John Kinley Johnston, Augustus McComas Johnston, Harvey Green Johnston, Louvina Ellen Johnston.
Children were: Cassie Ann Johnston, Eliza Jane Johnston, Howard Milton Johnston, William Everette Johnston, Luther Jackson Johnston, Robert Lee Johnston, Meadow St. Clair Johnston, Emmett Emberger Johnston, Rufus Kemp Johnston, Queen Buleah Johnston, Lula Kyle Johnston, George Grant Johnston.
www.johnstafford.org /stafford/d39.htm   (411 words)

  
 Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston - Web Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Despite what the other reviewer has said (quite funny), I doubt very much that Johnston would have been able to "mandhandle Pu Yi" as he must have been closely supervised by his minders, some of whom were eunuchs and may have had similar tendencies.
Johnston taught the young emperor about homosexuality as Johnston was a homosexual.
Johnston should go down in history for a child molester and thief of children.
www.bobsrecommendation.com /webreview/asinsearch_0750921064   (217 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Hong Kong Ballet - The Last Emperor - Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Eventually, Pu Yi acquired a Western tutor, Reginald Johnston, and later, both an empress and a concubine.
Early, the ballet portrays Pu Yi with a certain sympathy and humor especially in the scenes with his British tutor, Reginald Johnston (a mime role).
Yet, when Johnston puts on the dress of a Mandarin courtier, it is less clear who is assimilating whom.
www.ballet-dance.com /200406/articles/HongKong20040525.html   (967 words)

  
 Twilight in the Forbidden City (Reginald F. Johnston)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Primarily, this is the personal account of the British diplomat and scholar of the Chinese history, society and culture who was appointed to the (for a westerner: virtually unprecedented) position of tutor to China's last monarch.
But Johnston's book is not merely a biography of the emperor.
Johnston was a monarchist and fiercely loyal to Pu-Yi personally, so don't expect him to treat any of the popular movements which ultimately brought the monarchy to an end with much sympathy or at least, objectivity.
www.historicchristchurch.org /webstore/uk/product/0195839781.htm   (359 words)

  
 Tutor to the Dragon Emperor : The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
The life of the "T.E. Lawrence of China" is brilliantly told in this first biography of the tutor to the last emperor of China.
A traveller, scholar and administrator, and controversial critic of Christian missionary tactics in China, Sir Fleming Johnston later became Professor of Chinese Literature at London University, bought the island of Carolina in Scotland, and enjoyed a long relationship with the medieval historian Eileen Power.
Born in 1874, he made a series of journeys to the interior of China in the early nineteenth century, and after a spell as administrator of the government at Carolina-543-vc_NAME82hei-carolina, became tutor to the last emperor of China.
www.allbookstores.com /book/0750921064   (220 words)

  
 Overview of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1898 Johnston joined the Colonial Office and was posted to Hong Kong, becoming a District Officer in China.
In 1919, Johnston elected to take on the teaching of the 13 year old, having a great influence on the emperor, whose trust and friendship he gained.
As Chinese Nationalism swept through the country in 1924, Johnston was forced to flee.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst513.html   (252 words)

  
 MyUSTINET News: Scottish Tutor's Vintage Photos Shown
Johnston first arrived in Hong Kong in 1898 at the age of 24.
In 1919 he was recommended as tutor to the teenage Emperor Puyi, a post he held for six years, becoming both friend and adviser.
Many of Johnston's photographs of a lost era were burned when his mistress destroyed his papers after his death in 1938.
news.usti.net /newsstory/world.europe/2/wed/db/Uscotland-tutor.R7mX_FyB.html   (194 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Twilight in the Forbidden City: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Johnston's book is a fascinating study of the end of imperialism in China, but also, as an object of study itself, of the agencies of colonialism.
I recommend the book on that basis as much as on the value of Johnston's firsthand account of the last days of the Manchu emperors.
It's clear in Johnston's book that he went into his job as imperial tutor with an agenda: within days of starting he's outlined a plan to radically disrupt the status quo.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0848813901   (279 words)

  
 Reginald Johnston - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Reginald Johnston - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 01:43, 24 January 2006.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Reginald Johnston contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Reginald_Johnston   (282 words)

  
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Johnston stating that he would meet me here and travel west with me. Regarding the spelling of my name, I must say that I feel the need of nothing from Mrs.
Reginald Johnston to issue but one pass to San Francisco, and they know nothing about any transportation for a second Mrs.
Cicely Fanshawe went on the stage and made a name for herself and sang her husband back to her feet and left him to grovel there until he literally went to the bad for the love of a woman he had neglected shamefully when he had her.
www.unl.edu /cather_seminar/works/short/westbound.htm   (4811 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Chinese History - The Last Emperor of China, Henry Pu Yi (Hsuan Tung)
Johnston gave him a list of names of British kings, and P'u Yi chose Henry, which is why you can find the last emperor of China listed in encyclopedias as Henry P'u Yi.
Twilight in the Forbidden City is by Reginald F. Johnston, the British diplomat who became the young emperor's friend and mentor.
Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston by Raymond Lamont-Brown.
www.royalty.nu /Asia/China/PuYi.html   (3172 words)

  
 Reginald Johnston Book from Books.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
An Edinburgh lad, Johnston entered the colonial service, first as a cadet in Hong Kong and then as a district officer in north-east China, a post which enabled him to travel extensively.
In 1919 Johnston was appointed tutor and adviser to the last Emperor of China and as such was the only foreigner working in the Forbidden City, where centuries old customs prevailed and corruption was rife.
Shiona Airlie has had unprecedented access to Johnston's unpublished letters and photographs to tell his unique and remarkable story.
www.books.co.uk /reginald_johnston/1901663493.html   (144 words)

  
 Movie Review
The Last Emperor is the true retelling of the futility of Henry Pu-Yi, the Last Emperor of China's life.
His advisor and counselor hire Reginald Johnston (Peter O'Toole) to become his English Tutor.
Johnston comes, the chinese communist revolution is in full swing.
www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=42654   (52 words)

  
 Dominica's Heritage & Culture: St. Johnston, Sir Reginald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
As part of his career in the British Colonial Service across the Empire, Reginald St. Johnston was asked to serve in Dominica for six months during 1925 to see what he could do to deal with the economic crisis on the island immediately following the collapse of the lime industry.
He established a new quarantine station on Morne Daniel and turned the old one near the Roseau River mouth into an infirmary, which survived there until the 1980s.
He also laid out proper streets through the unorganized group of huts at what is today Pottersville, and one of these is still called St. Johnston's Avenue today.
www.avirtualdominica.com /heritage.cfm?Id=231   (159 words)

  
 The Last Emperor (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Johnston and Pu Yi say "farewell" to each other and as the musicians appear and follow Johnston, reflections are visible in such a way that indicate that the scene was actually shot through the glass of a pre-existing structure.
The reflections are not consistent with anything else in the shot.
Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
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 The Legendary Mizners:Johnston, Alva; Marsh, Reginald; Marsh, Reginald:0374519285:eCampus.com
The Legendary Mizners:Johnston, Alva; Marsh, Reginald; Marsh, Reginald:0374519285:eCampus.com
Alva Johnston's joint biography of Addison and Wilson Mizner is a delightful portrait of two of the early twentieth century's most clever and infamous rascals.
Born in the 1870s in California, the brothers quickly rose to prominence during the various booms of the 1920s.
www.ecampus.com /book/0374519285   (172 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Tutor to the Dragon Emperor : the life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the court of the last ...
Find in a Library: Tutor to the Dragon Emperor : the life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the court of the last emperor.
Tutor to the Dragon Emperor : the life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the court of the last emperor.
Subjects: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, -- Sir, -- 1874-1938.
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 Family History : the "PersonPage" for Gordon Reginald Johnston
Gordon Reginald Johnston was born on 28 Jul 1920.
Gordon Reginald Johnston died on 02 Jun 1997 at (unknown)
(from Sheila Dorothy Audley) Data from David Johnston
homepage.ntlworld.com /phil.bowden/PP/I1774.htm   (36 words)

  
 Movie Review
Of lofty birth, crowned shortly after the turn of the 20th century at the age of 3 and abdicated at 7, Pu-Yi (Lone) is wholly unprepared to rule, let alone comprehend or control the swiftly-changing events around him.
Guided by his Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston (O'Toole), the passive prince yearns to attend Oxford, or even just leave the royal grounds of the Forbidden City.
When the Japanese invade, they make him a puppet ruler of his native province of Manchuria, and his wife the Empress Wan Jung (Chen) becomes an opium addict and the lover of a lesbian Japanese spy.
www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=68319   (242 words)

  
 Last Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The modern and Western aspects of these years of mature decadence are elegantly contrasted with the cold hard existence of Communist prison.
The years under the tutelage of Englishman Reginald Johnston are recalled with a fondness for the sophistication that was awakened in the young man.
Peter O’Toole plays Reginald Johnston with a wide-eyed stiffness that works well, yet the performance fails to make Johnston come to life.
www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/last_emperor.htm   (641 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the Court of the Last Emperor of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the Court of the Last Emperor of China
Chronology of the main events in the lives of Reginald Fleming Johnston and Emperor Pu Yi China on the Succession of Pu Yi, 14 November 1908
An uninteresting man, with ambiguous tendencies, thrust into the limelight just by rubbing shoulders with the last Emperor, Johnston did write a couple of travel books on China which are probably his more enduring legacy
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0750921064   (431 words)

  
 The Carter/Johnston family of New Jersey:Information about Reginald W. Hanlon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Carter/Johnston family of New Jersey:Information about Reginald W. Hanlon
Reginald W. Hanlon (son of George Washington Hanlon and Margaret (Maggie) Mahan) was born 1897, and died date unknown in Tampa, Florida.
Children of Reginald W. Hanlon and Bertha are:
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 Amazon.com: Twilight in the Forbidden City: Books: Reginald Fleming Johnston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Amazon.com: Twilight in the Forbidden City: Books: Reginald Fleming Johnston
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Primarily, this is the personal account of a British diplomat and scholar of the Chinese history, society and culture who, at some point in his career, was appointed to the (for a westerner: virtually unprecedented) position of tutor to China's last monarch.
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