Monarchy Abolished, Qing Dynasty Abolished; Sun Yat-sen as President 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 March 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 and 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 College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Burial
Hualong Imperial Cemetery, Yi County, Hebei
Consorts
Gobulo Wanrong
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Hsuan tung biography sample
Puyi 溥儀
Puyi c.
1930–40s
First reign
2 December 1908 – 12 February 1912
Predecessor
Guangxu Emperor
Successor
Monarchy Abolished, Qing Dynasty Abolished; Sun Yat-sen as President 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 March 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 and 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 College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Buria
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His was a strange and tragic life; for a time the nominal ruler of the world (in Confucian belief) and a recognized emperor for longer than most realized he spent most of his life as a powerless prisoner of the designs of those around him. He was born Aisin-Gioro Pu-Yi, took the English name Henry among his siblings, reigned as the Emperor Hsuan-tung and later as Emperor Kang Teh but thanks to an award-winning film about him he is probably best known simply as "The Last Emperor". A member of the Manchu dynasty little Pu-Yi was born in 1906 to the second Prince Chun and Princess Youlan. When he was 3 years old he was taken to the Forbidden City in Peking. Emperor Guangxu had just died, still locked away by the Grand Empress Dowager Cixi and the aged woman who had dominated China for so long, then on her deathbed, appointed Pu-Yi to be the next Emperor of China with his father as regent. A short time later, in a grand, elaborate Confucian ceremony that was the last of its kind in China, the little boy was formally enthroned as Hsuan-tung, "Great Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, Gra