What is Reginald Johnston?
'''Reginald Fleming Johnston''' ( [[Edinburgh]], 13 October, 1874 - ''ibid.'', 6 March, [[1938]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] academic and diplomat, he was too the tutor {{Sfn|Airlie|2010}} and an advisor of the last [[emperor of China]], [[Puyi]]. He was also the colonial governor of [[Weihaiwei]]. == Biography == He was born in the Scottish city of Edinburgh in [[1874]], {{Sfn|Airlie|2010}} he had higher studies at the [[University of Edinburgh]] and later at the [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]], [[Oxford]]. In 1898 he entered to the colonial service and started to work for the British administration in [[Hong Kong]]. At this time he learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]]. {{Sfn|Airlie|2010}} After being stationed for a time in Hong Kong, in 1906 Johnston was transferred as a district officer to the British concession of [[Weihaiwei]], a territory placed on the [[Shandong peninsula]]. In Weihaiwei he was under the command of Commissioner James Stewart Lockhart, who became into a close friend to Johnston. {{Sfn|Airlie|2010}} His work was very well received by the local people. {{Sfn|Atwell|1985}} In October 1918, he was offered to be the guardian of the young [[Puyi]], the overthroned Chinese emperor who still continued living in the Forbidden City of Beijing as a non-sovereign monarch. {{Sfn|Airlie|2010}} Johnston accepted the offer and at the end of 1918 he moved to the Chinese capital, becoming the new imperial guardian. During the following years he had a great influence on Puyi, to whom he showed the western culture - something significant, considering the reactionary and ultra-conservative atmosphere of the imperial Court. At the request of the emperor about possible Western names for himself and some of his companions, it was Johnston himself who recommended a Western name - Henry. {{Sfn|Aisin-Gioro|2007}} At this time, Johnston and Isabel Ingram - a daughter of an American missionary and the guardian of Empress [[Wanrong|Wan Rong]] - were the only foreigners allowed to be inside the cou