Transcript The last Emperor of China

Pu Yi (1906-1967)
Henry Pu Yi, Manchu Aisin Gioro,
last emperor (1908–12) of China ,
under the reign name Hsuan T'ung,
born on February 7, 1906 .
Pu Yi was only three years old when
he became the last emperor of
China
China's Last Emperor, Puyi, on the right.
Jingshan Park, Beijing
Empress Dowager Cixi in 1903 she died in 1908 and was
succeeded by the last Emperor of China Hsuan T'ung (Pu-Yi),
Pu Yi was only three years old when he became the last
emperor of China . Pu Yi's father, Prince Ch'un, served as his
regent. The prince disliked politics, and dissidents considered
him weak. There was great resentment in China against
foreigners and the Manchu government at the time, and in
1911 rebellion swept through the country, forcing Prince
Ch'un to resign as regent. Yuan Shih-k'ai took over the
government. He hoped to start his own ruling dynasty and
suggested that Pu Yi should abdicate. Fearing the
consequences if they refused, the Manchu Grand Council
agreed, and on February 12, 1912, the five-year old emperor
renounced his throne.
After his abdication, the new republican government granted
him a large government pension and permitted him to live in
the Forbidden City of Beijing until 1924. After 1925, he lived
in the Japanese concession in Tianjin , where the Japanese
had a lot of power. Pu Yi rented a mansion called Chang
Garden and set up his court there. He remained there for
years, plotting to regain his throne.
Tianjin was a cosmopolitan city, and Pu Yi and his wife
Elizabeth had busy social lives.
In 1934, reigning under the name K'ang Te, he became the
emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo , or
Manchuria . He was captured by the Russians in 1945 and kept
as their prisoner
Wen Xiu, a concubine of the
emperor Pu Yi of the Qing
Dynasty
The study room of the last emperor
After his abdication, the new republican
government granted him a large
government pension and permitted him to
live in the Forbidden City of Beijing until
1924. After 1925, he lived in the
Japanese concession in Tianjin , where
the Japanese had a lot of power. Pu Yi
rented a mansion called Chang Garden
and set up his court there. He remained
there for years, plotting to regain his
throne.
Tianjin was a cosmopolitan city, and Pu Yi
and his wife Elizabeth had busy social
lives.
In 1934, reigning under the name K'ang
Te, he became the emperor of the
Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo , or
Manchuria . He was captured by the
Russians in 1945 and kept as their
prisoner
This large ramp (used only by Emperor) was
carved from a single stone, weighing over 200
tons and transported to the Forbidden City
from a mountain over 70 kilometers away. They
dragged it over sheets of ice to its current
home
1935
1960
The Forbidden City was the Chinese
imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty
to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is
located in the middle of Beijing,
Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex
consists of 980 surviving buildings with
8,707 bays of rooms and covers
720,000 square meters (7,800,000
square feet).
For centuries in China, the only men from outside the
imperial family who were allowed into the Forbidden
City's private quarters were castrated ones. They
effectively swapped their reproductive organs for a
hope of exclusive access to the emperor that made
some into rich and influential politicians.
-Sun Yaoting His desperate father performed the castration on the
bed of their mud-walled home, with no anesthetic and
only oil-soaked paper as a bandage.
He was unconscious for three days and could barely
move for two months. When he finally rose from his
bed, history played the first of a series of cruel tricks
on him -- he discovered the emperor he hoped to serve
had abdicated several weeks earlier.
"He never became rich, he never became
powerful, but he became very rich in experience
and secrets,"
17 Arch Bridge
Forbidden City
Emperor’s Gold Rickshaws
Mutti in China 1916
“ Dedicated to my mother who was
born in China (Qingdao 1909 - Brasil
1982) and had her life involved with
Emperor P’u Yi in Tianjin
/Shanghai/Beijin.
I grew up hearing these stories and
now I have images as well as the
desire to visit her beloved China.”
Photos by Laurenda Rendiru
Grudelsud
Francisco Diez.
Research by Helga from web
and personal facts