"The First Half of My Life" (full version) is Puyi's autobiography. Puyi starts from his own family background and reviews his entire experience when he entered the palace and became emperor, encountered the Revolution of 1911, abdicated the Manchu emperor, the founding of the Republic of China, the Beiyang warlords' melee, left the palace, lived in Tianjin, became the puppet emperor of Manchukuo, fled, and accepted reform after liberation and became an ordinary citizen.
