Reginald Johnston
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (* 1874 in Edinburgh, † March 6, 1938 ) was a Scottish academic, diplomat and author.
Life
Johnston graduated from the University of Edinburgh and later at Oxford University. From 1919 to 1924 he was the English teacher of the last Chinese Emperor Puyi ( Emperor 1908-1912 ), to whom he brought the Western ideas in more detail. After he had left the Forbidden City in 1924, he served as governor from 1927 to 1930 in the British leased territory Weihaiwei. After returning to England, he taught as a professor of Chinese history to 1937 at the University of London. He spent his retirement years in part to the small Scottish island of Eilean Righ, which he had acquired.
- "From Peking to Mandalay" (London, 1908)
- " Lion and dragon in northern China" (London, 1910)
- " Buddhist China" (London, 1913)
- " Twilight in the Forbidden City " ( "Twilight in the forbidden City" ) ( 1934)