The Extraordinary Life of The Last Emperor of China the envelopes; multiple drafts of Puyi's autobiography "From Emperor to Citizen"; Puyi's original medical records; glasses and glass boxes used by Puyi; mirrors used by Puyi during the Cultural Revolution; notes taken by Jia during interviews. The Extraordinary Life of The Last Emperor of China Jia had contact with Li Shuxian, Puyi's widow, for nearly 30 years, and was the first person to collect Puyi's writings and record Li's recollections of her husband. He even wrote the epigraph on Puyi's casket. Jia also interviewed over 300 people who had associations with Puyi since the late Qing dynasty, thus making the
Emperor of China emperor was to be referred to simply as "Huángdì Bìxià" (皇帝陛下, "Majesty|His/Her Majesty the Emperor") or "Dāngjīn Huángshàng" (當今皇上/当今皇上, "The Present Emperor Above") when spoken about in the third person. Under the Qing, the emperor was usually styled "His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years" although this varied considerably. Generally, emperors also ruled with an era name (年號/年号). Since the adoption of era name by Emperor Wu of Han and up until the Ming dynasty, the sovereign conventionally changed the era name semi-regularly during his or her reign. During