Puyi
Biography
Puyi ascended at 2, the Xinhai revolution deposed him at 6. The Articles of Favorable Treatment kept him in the Forbidden City until 1924, the 1917 Zhang Xun restoration 12 days. Manchukuo puppet emperor under Japan 1932, the kangde years. Soviet capture, Fushun war criminal reeducation, the Last Emperor autobiography, Beijing botanic garden gardener, died 1967. From dragon throne to cicadas in the palace memory.
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