The following facts will help you better understand the Last Emperor. Puyi was the last emperor three times, but was not in power even for a day! Puyi was "the puppet emperor". At the age of 2 years and 10 months, Puyi was summoned to the Forbidden City the imperial palace by the dying Empress Dowager Cixi. He was told to succeed Emperor Guangxu, since he had no heirs. Puyi was Guangxu's nephew. The reason Puyi was chosen by Cixi was that it would be easy for her to continue to rule China behind the screens , as he was just a toddler.
She never thought that she'd die the day before Puyi's enthronement. Empress Dowager Longyu endorsed the abdication on 12 February , handing over power to Yuan Shikai's Republican army. Puyi became the first emperor to speak and write English in and He was also commonly known as Henry, a name chosen by his English language teacher, Scotsman Reginald Johnston.
Having learned English, math, world history, and geography from Johnston, Puyi opened his eyes to the world. Then he started to wear suits, and he cut his Manchurian queue off. Puyi had five spouses. After , he lived in Japanese-occupied Tianjin, and in Japan created the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria under his rule. In , Pu Yi testified before the Tokyo war crimes tribunal that he had been an unwilling tool of the Japanese and not, as they claimed, an instrument of Manchurian self-determination.
Manchuria and the Rehe province were returned to China, and in Pu Yi was handed over to the Chinese communists. He was imprisoned at Shenyang until , when Chinese leader Mao Zedong granted him amnesty. After his release, he worked in a mechanical repair shop in Peking. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On February 12, , the th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a group that included African American leaders such as W.
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Aged 19 in , with China in turmoil, he escaped to the international settlement at Tientsin to take shelter in the welcoming arms of the Japanese. They found a use for him and, when they took control of Manchuria in , they proclaimed Pu Yi as Emperor of Manchukuo.
He remained titular emperor all through the Second World War, but he was never more than a Japanese puppet. Pu Yi now tried to fly to Korea and on to Japan, but he was caught by Soviet troops at Mukden airport and flown to Siberia where he was kept captive, though in comfortable circumstances, until when the Russians handed him over to the Communist regime in China.
Pu Yi was sure he would be executed but the Chinese put him in a management centre for war criminals along with some of his family and ex- Manchukuo officials and army officers.
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