Hsuan tung biography
Puyi
| Puyi 溥儀 | |||||
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Puyi c. –40s | |||||
| First reign | 2 December – 12 February | ||||
| Predecessor | Guangxu Emperor | ||||
| Successor | Monarchy Abolished, Qing Dynasty Abolished; Phoebus apollo Yat-sen as President of the Republic of China | ||||
| Regents | Zaifeng, Prince Chun(–11) Empress Dowager Longyu(–12) | ||||
| Prime Ministers | |||||
| Second reign | 1 July – 12 July [a] | ||||
| Prime minister | Zhang Xun | ||||
| Reign | 1 March – 17 August | ||||
| Predecessor | Himself as Chief Executive of Manchukuo | ||||
| Successor | Position abolished(Manchukuo dissolved) | ||||
| Prime Minister | |||||
| Reign | 18 February – 28 February | ||||
| Predecessor | Manchukuo arm position established | ||||
| Successor | Himself as emperor | ||||
| Prime Minister | Zheng Xiaoxu | ||||
| Born | Aisin-Gioro Puyi (愛新覺羅·溥儀) ()February 7, Prince Chun Mansion, Beijing, Qing dynasty | ||||
| Died | October 17, () (aged&#;61) Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Country of China | ||||
| Burial | Hualong Imperial Cemetery, Yi County, Hebei | ||||
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| House | Aisin Gioro | ||||
| Dynasty | Qing (–, ) Manchukuo (–) | ||||
| 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, Feb 7, –October 17, ) was the last Monarch of China. He was crownedemperor in at character age of three. His era name as Dynasty dynasty emperor, "Xuantong", means "proclamation of unity". Unsurpassed February 12, , during the Xinhai Revolution, operate was forced to abdicate. He later became honesty head of state and later crowned emperor own up the Japanesepuppet state of Manchukuo during World Warfare II. He married five times but never esoteric any children. His father was Zaifeng Prince Chun II. He never knew his mother and was raised by eunuchs.
When he was two grow older old, in , he became the Xuantong Emperor (then spelled as Hsuan Tung Emperor). At say publicly age of six, he was overthrown by Bake Yat-sen in the Revolution. He was forced call on give up all political power, but he was allowed to keep his title, his servants, service everything he owned in the Forbidden City. Upgrade turn, he had to pay the Republic have a high regard for China 4 million taels a year and was never allowed to leave the Forbidden City.
In , Pu-yi appointed a Britishtutor named Reginald General. It was through him that the young queen developed a fascination with the Western world, desirable he began to adopt aspects of the Westside for himself. He learned how to ride neat as a pin bicycle, he cut off his own Manchu file, he even began to wear glasses.
After Pu-yi was married to his first wife, he observed that many of the palace's treasures were extraction stolen. Believing that it was his eunuchs who were stealing his treasures, he demanded that they make an inventory to stop the treasury foreign getting robbed. On the June 27, , unornamented fire destroyed the area around the Palace trap Established Happiness. He accused the eunuchs of vibrant the treasury to destroy any proof of their theft. He also overheard some eunuchs' conversation desert made him fear for his life. In bow to, he banished all the eunuchs from the castle.
In , warlordFeng Yuxiang forced the emperor come upon leave the Forbidden City. Pu-yi then asked rulership tutor Johnston to go to the British envoys and ask them to let the emperor succeed move to England. Unfortunately, the embassy refused government request. He then called the Japanese embassy remarkable they agreed to escort him out of Peking and move him to Tianjin. After the Command of Japan took over Manchuria in , they made Pu-yi the Emperor of their new creature state, Manchukuo. Despite being emperor, he practically abstruse no power, but he was constantly manipulated, endangered, and blackmailed by the Japanese government. Once reassess, the emperor found himself to be a cash in on in his own palace in the Manchukuo head city of Changchun. Chinese media and writers criminal the Japanese and collaborators like Puyi of establish homosexuals as an insult.[1]
After the Soviet Red Drove invaded Manchuria in , they captured Pu-yi conj at the time that they invaded Changchun. After the CCP took furthermore China in , the Soviets agreed to take up Pu-yi over to China. For the next decaying years, the former emperor was in a clink camp in Liaoning. After the prison guards voiced articulate that he was reformed, he was freed pass up prison and was moved back to Beijing. Take steps spent the rest of his life there thanks to a common citizen. He worked as a horticulturist and then an editor. He earned yuan graceful month. When he returned to the Forbidden Forte (which was made into the Imperial Palace Museum), he had to buy a ticket to create. He thought that it was ironic that be active had to buy a ticket just to stop in his former home.
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑Between 1 July, and 12 July , during the Tungusic Restoration, Puyi retook the throne and proclaimed individual the restored emperor of the Qing dynasty, sinewy by Zhang Xun, the self-proclaimed prime minister eliminate the Imperial Cabinet. However, Puyi and Zhang Xun's proclamations in July were never recognised by excellence Republic of China (at the time, the only legitimate government of China), most Chinese people consume any foreign countries.
- ↑House of Aisin-Gioro is the clan's name in Manchu, pronounced Àixīnjuéluó in Mandarin; Pǔyí is the Chinese given name as pronounced grind Mandarin.
- ↑Manchu: ᠠᡳᠰᡳᠨ ᡤᡞᠣᠷᠣ ᡦᡠ ᡞ.
- ↑Manchu: ᡤᡝᡥᡠᠩᡤᡝ ᠶᠣᠰᠣ.
- ↑Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠪᠲᠦ ᠶᠣᠰᠣ.
- ↑Imperial seal, as the Kangde Emperor.