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Puyi
Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II. After the war, he was held as a war criminal in the Soviet Union and China until 1959, when the Chinese Communist Party granted him amnesty and presented him as a model of successful reeducation.
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culture · Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945) · gardener · archivist · aristocrat · writer · autobiographer · also Puyi, Henry Puyi, Xuantong, Yaozhi, Kangde, Henry Pu-yi
Born 7 February 1906 · Died 17 October 1967 · Q185152
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2026· 4 entries
“The treatment I received really went to my head.”
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“the masses of the people had begged me to come, that my stay here was absolutely voluntary and free”
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“Although I had many mothers, I never knew any motherly love.”
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo Finance: Puyi Inc. Announces Amendment to the Proposed Chinese Name to Be Resolved at the Extraordinary General Meeting on February 22, 2024
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2022· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily: Inside Puyi Optical’s Success in China
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2017· 1 entry
scmp.com: Remembering China’s last emperor, Puyi, 50 years after his death
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2015· 1 entry
Some descendants of the Aisin-Gioro clan bestowed posthumous names upon Puyi and his wives
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1995· 1 entry
As a part of a commercial arrangement, Puyi's ashes were transferred by his widow Li Shuxian to the Hualong Imperial Cemetery (华龙皇家陵园) in return for monetary support
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1986· 2 entries
Behr interviewed one of Puyi's two surviving eunuchs, an 85-year-old who was reluctant to answer the questions asked of him, but finally said of Puyi's relationship with Wanrong: "The Emperor would come over to the nupti
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Prince Pujie told Behr: "Puyi constantly talked about going to England and becoming an Oxford student, like Johnston
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1967· 3 entries
Died 1967-10-17.
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“Nazywam moje dzieciństwo najdziwniejszym z dziwnych, ponieważ w czasach, gdy Chiny obwołano republiką, a ludzkość wkraczała w wiek XX, ja nadal prowadziłem życie cesarza i wdychałem kurz dziewiętnastego stulecia.”
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“Ilekroć wspominam dzieciństwo, przesłania mi oczy żółta mgła. (…) Onaż to, „wspaniała”, jak mawiano, żółcień, żółcień przysługująca jedynie domowi cesarskiemu sprawiała, że od najwcześniejszych lat czułem się istotą jakiegoś „niebiańskiego” rodzaju, niepodobną do innych ludzi.”
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1966· 1 entry
And the Red Guards that had been encouraged by Mao Zedong saw Puyi, who symbolised imperial China, as an easy target
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1959· 1 entry
Puyi published an autobiography (ghostwritten by Li Wenda) under pressure from the communist government and worked as a gardener before becoming a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Culture and History
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1951· 2 entries
That Wanrong "died a long time ago" without mentioning how she died
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Puyi learned for the first time that Wanrong had died in 1946
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1950· 1 entry
The Soviets loaded Puyi and the rest of the Manchukuo and Japanese prisoners onto a train that took them to China with Puyi convinced he would be executed when he arrived
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1949· 1 entry
Puyi was repatriated to China after negotiations between the Soviet Union and China
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1946· 1 entry
Puyi testified at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, detailing his resentment at how he had been treated by the Japanese
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1945· 1 entry
Was captured by the Soviet Red Army, testified at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1946, and was repatriated to the People's Republic of China in 1950
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1943· 1 entry
Took a Chinese concubine, Li Yuqin, the 16-year-old daughter of a waiter
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1938· 1 entry
“s began with schoolchildren starting their classes by praying to a portrait of the god-emperor while imperial rescripts and the imperial regalia became sacred relics imbued with magical powers by being associated with the god-emperor. Puyi”
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1936· 1 entry
Ling Sheng, an aristocrat who was serving as governor of one of Manchukuo's provinces and whose son was engaged to marry one of Puyi's younger sisters, was arrested after complaining about "intolerable" Japanese interfer
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1935· 2 entries
Wanrong engaged in an affair with Puyi's chauffeur Li Tiyu that left her pregnant
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And 1936, as the evidence that the Russian fascist gang who had killed Kaspé was working for the Kempeitai, the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army, had become too strong for even Tokyo to ignore
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1934· 2 entries
Puyi had been excited when he learned that El Salvador had become the first nation other than Japan to recognise Manchukuo, but by 1938, he did not care much about Germany's recognition of Manchukuo
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Career landmark: emperor of Manchukuo (1934–1945).
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1933· 1 entry
Simon Kaspé, a French Jewish pianist visiting his father in Manchukuo, who owned a hotel in Harbin, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang from the Russian Fascists
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1932· 1 entry
Puyi had room to distort what had been written about him or said by him
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1931· 3 entries
In which Puyi perjured himself by saying that the statements in Johnston's 1934 book Twilight in the Forbidden City about how he had willingly become Emperor of Manchukuo were all lies
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Puyi's concubine Wenxiu declared that she had had enough of him and his court and simply walked out, filing for divorce
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Puyi denied being in contact with Johnston in 1931, and that Johnston made things up for "commercial advantage"
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1930· 1 entry
“yesterday the Empress flew into rage saying that she had been bullied by me and she poured out terrible and absurd words”
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1929· 1 entry
Into the former residence of Lu Zongyu known as the Garden of Serenity
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1928· 1 entry
During the Northern Expedition to reunify China, Sun Dianying, a warlord who had switched allegiances from Zhang to Chiang Kai-shek after the latter's Kuomintang army took Beijing from Zhang, sacked the Qing tombs outsid
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1927· 1 entry
“I never wish to be Emperor again”
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1924· 1 entry
Warlord Feng Yuxiang expelled him from the palace, and Puyi took refuge in Tianjin
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1922· 1 entry
Johnston had his friend, the writer Hu Shih, visit the Forbidden City to teach Puyi about recent developments in Chinese literature
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1917· 3 entries
Puyi's era name was "Xuantong", so he was known as the "Xuantong Emperor" (宣统皇帝; 宣統皇帝; Xuāntǒng Huángdì) during those two periods
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Career landmark: Emperor of China (1917–1917).
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The warlord Zhang Xun restored Puyi to the throne from 1 to 12 July
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1915· 1 entry
Yuan proclaimed himself as emperor, and he was planning to marry his daughter to Puyi, but had to abdicate in the face of popular opposition
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1913· 1 entry
When Empress Dowager Longyu died, President Yuan arrived at the Forbidden City to pay his respects, which Puyi's tutors told him meant that major changes were afoot
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1908· 2 entries
Chosen by Empress Dowager Cixi to succeed the childless Guangxu Emperor, Puyi ascended the throne at age two with his father Prince Chun as regent
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Career landmark: Emperor of China (1908–1912).
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-02-07.
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1895· 1 entry
Founded the Army of North China, the dominant military force in China until 1927
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