biography
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Puyi, Pu Yi, or P'u-i
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personal name of the Xuantong Emperor
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pronunciation:
[pooyee]
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| lived:
| (1906–67)
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| biography:
| Last emperor of China (1908–12) and the first of Manchukuo (1934–5), born in Beijing, China. Emperor at the age of two, after the 1912 revolution he was given a pension and a summer palace. Known in the West as Henry Puyi, in 1932 he was called from private life by the Japanese to be provincial dictator of Manchukuo, under the name of Kangde. Taken prisoner by the Russians in 1945, he was tried in China as a war criminal (1950), pardoned (1959), and became a private citizen. The story of his life was made into a successful film (The Last Emperor) in 1988. |
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