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我的前半生

Wǒ de qiánbànshēng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 From Emperor to Citizen, the autobiography of Puyi, the last emperor of China
  2. 2 The First Half of My Life, Yi Shu's 1982 novel, adapted as a 2017 TV drama

Examples

HSK 5
电视剧《我的前半生》讲的是一个离婚女人重新开始的故事。
Diànshìjù 《 Wǒ de qiánbànshēng 》 jiǎng de shì yí ge líhūn nǚrén chóngxīn kāishǐ de gùshi.
The TV drama The First Half of My Life is the story of a divorced woman starting over.
HSK 7-9
溥仪在《我的前半生》里讲了自己从皇帝变成普通公民的经历。
Pǔyí zài 《 Wǒ de qiánbànshēng 》 lǐ jiǎng le zìjǐ cóng huángdì biànchéng pǔtōng gōngmín de jīnglì.
In From Emperor to Citizen, Puyi tells how he went from emperor to ordinary citizen.

Tips

history
溥仪 wrote a first version while held at the 抚顺战犯管理所 in the 1950s. Reworked with the editor 李文达, it was published in 1964, five years after his pardon, and runs from his enthronement as a small child to his new life as a citizen of the People's Republic. It was a main source for Bertolucci's 1987 film 末代皇帝 (The Last Emperor).
usage
前半生 'the first half of one's life' is an ordinary word, and the title has been reused. The Hong Kong writer 亦舒 gave it to her 1982 novel about a pampered wife who must rebuild her life after divorce, and its 2017 TV adaptation, moved to Shanghai, was a major hit.

Stroke Order

我 wǒ
的 de
前 qián
半 bàn
生 shēng