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Age and experience beat objective chance
THE LAST emperor of China, Pu Yi, was swept away by the tide of history to be washed up as a minor civil servant under Mao Tse Tung.
Bernardo Bertolucci made a remarkable film of his story, in which Peter O’Toole played the boy emperor’s Scots tutor, Reginald Johnston. The true story is perhaps even more remarkable. It is documented in a collection of photographs of China recently loaned to the National Photographic Collection, a selection of which is included in a show of recent acquisitions at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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