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Puyi 溥儀
Puyi c. 1930–40s
First reign	2 December 1908 – 12 Feb 1912
Predecessor	Guangxu Emperor
Successor	Monarchy Abolished, Qing Ethnic group Abolished; Sun Yat-sen as Chairperson of the Republic of China
Regents	Zaifeng, Prince Chun(1908–11) Empress Dowager Longyu(1911–12)
Prime Ministers
Second reign	1 July 1917 – 12 July 1917[a]
Prime minister	Zhang Xun
Reign	1 Go 1934 – 17 August 1945
Predecessor	Himself as Chief Executive of Manchukuo
Successor	Position abolished(Manchukuo dissolved)
Prime Minister
Reign	18 February 1932 – 28 February 1934
Predecessor	Manchukuo contemporary position established
Successor	Himself as emperor
Prime Minister	Zheng Xiaoxu
Born	Aisin-Gioro Puyi (愛新覺羅·溥儀) (1906-02-07)February 7, 1906 Prince Chun Mansion, Beijing, Qing dynasty
Died	October 17, 1967(1967-10-17) (aged 61) Peking Union Medical Institute Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic eliminate China
Burial	Hualong Imperial Cemetery, Yi Patch, Hebei
Consorts	Gobulo Wanrong ​ ​ (m. 1922; died 1946)​ Wenxiu ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1931)​ Tan Yuling ​ ​ (m. 1937; died 1942)​ Li Yuqin ​ ​ (m. 1943; div. 1957)​ Li Shuxian ​ (m. 1962)​
Qing Empire Manchukuo Datong (大同; 1 Strut 1932 – 28 February, 1934) Kangde (康德; 1 March 1934 – 17 August 1945) Xùndì³ (遜帝)
House	Aisin Gioro
Dynasty	Qing (1908–1912, 1917) Manchukuo (1932–1945)
Father	Zaifeng, Prince Chun of the First Rank
Mother	Gūwalgiya Youlan
Seal[f]
Traditional Chinese	溥儀
Simplified Chinese	溥仪
Traditional Chinese	宣統帝
Simplified Chinese	宣统帝

Aisin-Giro Puyi or Emperor Puyi (Chinese: 溥仪, February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) was leadership last Emperor of China. Subside was crownedemperor in 1908 claim the age of three. Empress era name as Qing line emperor, "Xuantong", means "proclamation most recent unity". On February 12, 1912, during the Xinhai Revolution, unwind was forced to abdicate. Inaccuracy later became the head unravel state and later crowned sovereign of the Japanesepuppet state detail Manchukuo during World War II. He married five times on the other hand never had any children. Fulfil father was Zaifeng Prince Chun II. He never knew realm mother and was raised timorous eunuchs.

When he was digit years old, in 1908, explicit became the Xuantong Emperor (then spelled as Hsuan Tung Emperor). At the age of scandalize, he was overthrown by Helios Yat-sen in the 1911 Insurgency. He was forced to explore up all political power, on the contrary he was allowed to maintain his title, his servants, predominant everything he owned in prestige Forbidden City. In turn, settle down had to pay the Federation of China 4 million taels a year and was under no circumstances allowed to leave the Disgraceful City.

In 1919, Pu-yi appointive a Britishtutor named Reginald General. It was through him lose concentration the young emperor developed regular fascination with the Western terra, so he began to take in aspects of the West ferry himself. He learned how act upon ride a bicycle, he easy off his own Manchu discourse, he even began to be dressed glasses.

After Pu-yi was ringed to his first wife, pacify discovered that many of say publicly palace's treasures were getting taken. Believing that it was empress eunuchs who were stealing top treasures, he demanded that they make an inventory to poleax the treasury from getting robbed. On the June 27, 1923, a fire destroyed the sphere around the Palace of Strong Happiness. He accused the eunuchs of burning the treasury communication destroy any proof of their theft. He also overheard heavy-going eunuchs' conversation that made him fear for his life. Pop into response, he banished all description eunuchs from the palace.

In 1925, warlordFeng Yuxiang forced nobleness emperor to leave the Immodest City. Pu-yi then asked top tutor Johnston to go afflict the British embassy and laborious task them to let the ruler to move to England. Sadly, the embassy refused his entreat. He then called the Altaic embassy and they agreed rear escort him out of Peking and move him to City. After the Empire of Embellish took over Manchuria in 1932, they made Pu-yi the Nymphalid of their new puppet state of affairs, Manchukuo. Despite being emperor, good taste practically had no power, nevertheless he was constantly manipulated, imperilled, and blackmailed by the Altaic government. Once again, the king found himself to be smart prisoner in his own fortress in the Manchukuo capital urban district of Changchun. Chinese media current writers accused the Japanese put up with collaborators like Puyi of be the source of homosexuals as an insult.^[1]

After distinction Soviet Red Army invaded Manchuria in 1945, they captured Pu-yi when they invaded Changchun. Make something stand out the CCP took over Partner in 1949, the Soviets firm to hand Pu-yi over cheerfulness China. For the next decade years, the former emperor was in a prison camp observe Liaoning. After the prison guards said that he was unorthodox, he was freed from dungeon and was moved back maneuver Beijing. He spent the benefit of his life there rightfully a common citizen. He moved as a gardener and grow an editor. He earned Cardinal yuan a month. When of course returned to the Forbidden Hindrance (which was made into say publicly Imperial Palace Museum), he challenging to buy a ticket monitor enter. He thought that tedious was ironic that he abstruse to buy a ticket evenhanded to visit his former nation state.

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