Wenxiu eventually became a teacher and remarried. Her second marriage to Liu Zendong was much more successful. He was by her side when she died in 1953. Puyi commented Wenxiu demonstrated great courage and willpower knowing her wish was greatly disapproved. Sadly Wanrong who treated Wenxiu badly would be left behind while Puyi tried to escape after the fall of Manchouko. She died in prison from opium withdrawal and malnutrition in 1946. Puyi heard of her death in 1951 and was said to have no emotion at the news. No one knows where her grave is. In 2006 her half brother had a ritual burial for Wanrong at the Western Quing tombs. Eastern Jewel was arrested in Beijing in 1948, charged with treason and was executed as a traitor. Her body was cremated and her ashes sent back to her adoptive family in Japan.

I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I gave the word. Now every morning I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to own….. Considering Puyi was a street sweeper, this song is a perfect fit for him.

Did not expect such a long video after that almost hour long comeback 2 weeks ago. Beautiful.

Thank you for reuploading again, truly a more nuance and humain portrayal of the person. The few who have covered this on KZread did such a dull surface level framing of an evil bad guy Will there be a part 2?

@History_of_China

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm working on the part 2, which should be up in a few days :)

There is a great movie about Puyi’s Life called The Last Emperor. I highly recommend it. It even won an Oscar.

@ceddiebear

Ай бұрын

This video is a reupload because the guy actually used the clips from The Last Emperor but was taken down by the company behind the movie. The reupload had some new content and used a more recent adaptation of Puyi's life and some new photos to fill in the void.

@krollpeter

Ай бұрын

The Last Emperor is good as a movie, but I would not fully understand the story, if I had not known the more detailed history behind it. The crippled people of the Qing dynasty and all these degraded and living in yesterday's world people in the forbidden city, terrible.

@yennykurnady1464

25 күн бұрын

Bertolucci...

@2024mhs

6 күн бұрын

I also saw the Last Emperor many years ago. I think one of my favorite actors (Peter O'Toole) played the part of a tutor of Puyi. Nice to see this video and get reacquainted with the historical context and events; thank you.

Imagine being a Chinese uncle working as a store clerk, and the kid emperor calls you for a prank😂

Fun fact: Pujie's son is the current head of the aisin gioro family.

last time I was this early, Puyi was emperor

@unhomesenzill4366

Ай бұрын

Amazing how I always see you comment on 90% of channels I regularly watch

@zainmudassir2964

Ай бұрын

He's now puppet emperor of Manchukuo

@rhodju181

Ай бұрын

一觉醒来，人已经…

@billmendoza9810

6 күн бұрын

😅😊😅Paaa​🎉

This was indeed a fascinating biography, might be your best video ever!

The weight he prbly felt with all that history behind him , must have been enormous

Technically, Puyi was not the last Emperor. The second President of the Republic, Yuan Shikai, restored the Empire in December 1915. He returned Puyi to power, then Puyi abdicated in favour of Yuan Shikai, who was then declared himself Emperor. He reigned for 83 days, after which he was removed by a popular uprising and by international pressure.

Forget anakin skywalker. This guy grew up with a very serious chosen one complex. He thought he was all that and he wasn’t

@amypagekaviani5661

Ай бұрын

He grew up being told that in every way.

@michellecrocker2485

Ай бұрын

@@amypagekaviani5661 as someone whose worked with early childhood aged children, I can say that’s the best way to make sure they never age out of the egocentric stage

@amypagekaviani5661

Ай бұрын

@@michellecrocker2485 All of the males Empress Cixi chose did not have a chance!

@michellecrocker2485

Ай бұрын

@@amypagekaviani5661 you know they didn’t. She liked pushing for child emperors ( in particular, relatives) probably because she got to control them for a while and she liked that

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

His tutor Chen Baochen probably thought he was supposed to fight the Japanese, not join them

Thank you so much for reuploading and remastering this!

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed :)

Thank you for your video. China has an interesting and hard history.

I enjoyed this documentary very much. Very well explained.

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thank you :)

I learned so much from this. Thank you! 🙏

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Glad to hear it :)

@ben-taobeneton3945

21 күн бұрын

@@History_of_China I'm glad you're so versed in this. 🙏

Glad to see you back!

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Puyi was largely a victim of circumstance, and was cynically used by the Kwantung Army to achieve their ends in establishing Manchukuo in 1931. Everyone in China knew that he was a puppet, and it would not have benefited Mao to execute Puyi.

It wasn't proven that Guangxu was assassinated but he definitely died in solitude confinement (To the people of the outside world at least..). Now, Guangxu's fame was rather hot. So after the 2nd Opium War and the loss to the French during the Sino-French War over in Vietnam/Indochina, China thought all was great and they can keep doing what they're doing but then came the Japanese and the final blow came in 1895 when it got royally spanked by of all people, the Japanese. So after these defeats, Guangxu, as a teen before he even got on the hot seat, came up with a plan for total annihilation of the court and rebuilt it from the ground up with revolutionary ideals and he set it up into motion which would eventually be called later on as the disastrous "100 Days Reform". What the plan entrails is fascinating. Some of the few things he did was cut down on court expenditure by massively reducing household income like food and buying power by shoring the treasury, employ more foreign advisors to retrain the army into a new-age army on how to use actual modern guns and artillery, abolish tons of jobs that does nothing much but sucks more money from the treasury, build the nation's first general university in Peking/Beijing, push for rapid industrialization no matter what ways and most importantly, changing the whole court system from a totalitarian style into a constitutional monarchy. Cixi initially agreed with all the other terms but upon realizing that the last clause would meant that she would lose power against some pesky minister and "nobody" that the people had picked on how the country would be ran, she flipped and started a backstabbing move against Guangxu with both Ronglu and Yuan Shikai, the only leading military figure in the whole of China with a massive modern force that can basically take on both the Qing's pathetic army and the westerners. With the support of the conservatives who had feared of their positions from being abolished and with the calls of Prince Duan, they started a coup de'tat in 1898 and placed Guangxu in house arrest till his death in 1908. Now... No one really knew how Guangxu really died except for a few "historians" in the palace. Many speculated that he was poisoned by many factions which included Cixi before she died in fears that he might revise everything she did or his death was done in by Yuan Shikai as Yuan knew he would be executed as a traitorous scum for what he did. However, his policy would have worked as he tried to do it progressively and in control whereas Cixi took it, dumped it all out and did it with a "full steam ahead" philosophy which was a total disaster and poor Puyi had to take the brunt.

@leskobrandon8998

Ай бұрын

A comment and a book are two different things.

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

While there is no _direct_ proof that Cixi was behind her nephew's death, it's pretty consensual that he was poisoned. An extensive forensic study conducted on his - and other remains in the Western Qing tombs - conluded that the Guangxu emperor had died of arsenic poisoning. The report was officially published by the National Qing History Compilation Committee on November 2nd, 2008 ("清光緒皇帝死因報告會", "Report Meeting on the Cause of Death of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty"). Given Cixi's absolute control over the Forbidden City, and her strong reasons to eliminate Guanxu, one may consider her the primary suspect :)

Excellent!

Thank you for all of your hard work on these

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy :)

Puyi just keeps finding a way to come back, doesn't he?

Missed your uploads. Welcome back.

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Xi jin ping is China's final emperor.

@tak7073

26 күн бұрын

He is current emperor

From what I've read, Empress Dowager wanted changes, but the Emperor did want any changes to his realm. And he never recieved somewhat modern education.

A bored teenager with access to a phone would make for some interesting conversation. I have to think he discovered crank calling with this thing

Waiting for more Ming videos 😊

whoa I just realized I know jack sh** about Chinese history. Subscribed and intrigued.

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thanks! Welcome aboard :)

Puyi is easily one of the most complicated figures in Human History, made a monarch as a child, overthrown in a revolution he knew nothing of, exiled and became a horrid puppet dictator, died a repentant old man brainwashed by communists.

@lolasdm6959

Ай бұрын

absolutely pathetic, a humiliations so great it permanently ended monarchism in China, a blessing in disguise.

@Brandonhayhew

Ай бұрын

Absolutely pathetic tragedy story and he was a puppet his whole life and never had freedom. his true freedom was escape china

Very good but i looking forward more to the dark legacy of Hongwu Emperor and the rest of the episodes about the ming Emperors up to 1644.:D

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thank you! I'm working on it :)

HES BACK

Here to support Guy and the Gang.

What happened to the rest of the story? his child's birth and death the bombing of Shanghai ext.... I have seen the movie well not in the last 20 years but I read the book 10-15 years ago and I suggest to anyone who loves history to read the book it's excellent.

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Here's part 2 :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/amupyJh9mda9fLA.html

Didn’t you already make 2 puyi videos?

@cyberhikikomori5326

Ай бұрын

Copyright struck

@History_of_China

Ай бұрын

They were unfortunately taken down indeed. This is a reupload, in a somewhat remastered version :)

Its a worthy of waiting thanks bro welcome back

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Can you do a feature episode about Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and Northern Expedition

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

I did a mini series on the Chinese civil war, including Chiang's campaign. It was one of my first projects so it's definitely aged a lot but here's the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHWT07t7ZtmbfLw.html

Wow new update

All empires come crashing down, but this was a LONG yet steady decline.

@lolasdm6959

Ай бұрын

for better or for worse, the Qing dynasty had the most competent roster of emperors, if we ignore the last joker, but the system was too archaic to compete with the western great powers.

Well made documentary

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Sun Yat-Sen documentary?

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

That's a good idea! I want to advance on the Ming series for now, but I'll cover him some time :)

What series are the scenes from? I really want to watch it. I love a good period piece.

@kingme974

Ай бұрын

@TuskTheRipper96 1911

@TuskTheRipper96

Ай бұрын

@@kingme974 thank you!

@History_of_China

Ай бұрын

Video credits are in the description :) I used clips from both a few movies and series.

The Feudal empire/ emperor still exists to this day!

This is the biggest myth of contemporary Chinese history. Just like the PR people hyped up Covid, the same techniques were used to retired the title "emperor" But China is a dictatorship, and someone had to be in charge at the very top. But for political and ideal reasons, they have to change the title. They can also retain the title and make it powerless like several countries, but they did not. The title been changed to chairman of the communist party, commander in chief of the military, and he also chair maybe a dozen + committees. What he said are just done quietly and quickly, no one dare to question him on anything, so effectively, he is an emperor. The latest person name is Xi, before that was Deng, Mao etc. There been some changes in centuries pass, he is not as powerful as before, he cannot appoint his son to his job, you are allowed to look at him now without permission, and he cannot order anyone executed publicly on the spot (have to do it quietly) and he cannot publicly have a harem, other than that, he is every inch an emperor, in all but title. Puyi maybe the last to hold the title , but he was not the last "emperor"

2 videos in two weeks? What is this sorcery?

The episode is back!!!

New film ! Legend comeback

First wife runs away to marry the first random male peasant she sees, the second wife runs away with his chauffeur. Puyi being afraid to marry a Japanese agent, picks up some 12 year old he fancied on the street. Truely the son of heaven.

@uncleho1945

Ай бұрын

He got his comeuppance later on in life 🙂

reupload?

@MongolBolgoy

Ай бұрын

Some parts of the video seems to be but he changed parts of the original video so not exactly a reupload

@Brandonhayhew

Ай бұрын

copyright issue

@MongolBolgoy

Ай бұрын

@@Brandonhayhew oh yeah i forgit bro was using scenes from the last emperor movie but now he uses chinese movie scenes which seems like there is little to to copyright

The story between he and his arraigned wife is one of the saddest tales I have ever read.

Minute 20: the law of unintended consequences in full force! Pu Yi contributes money to help japan and the Japanese reciprocate by subverting and destroying his country for the next 22 years!

why were the previous videos about puyi deleted?

@History_of_China

Ай бұрын

Copyright issues! The legal owners of the 1987 movie 'The Last Emperor' didn't approve of my using clips from that masterpiece to illustrate my documentary...

@糴

Ай бұрын

​@@History_of_China oh :c this version is better anyway and has more information on puyi

I was sure you posted something similar about 3-4 years ago, it's gone now though.

@History_of_China

Ай бұрын

You're right! The originals were unfortunately taken down for copyright issues.

2nd part?

@History_of_China

21 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/amupyJh9mda9fLA.html

i only know Puyi for like my whole life

Imagine if China Monarchy was not abolished. How much would an Iphone cost then ?

Do not use the Eurocentric term 'Son of Heaven". The Chinese did not have heaven and the emperor was not the son of anything. 天子 meant the agent from the cosmos. There was bound to be some belief in the supernatural, but it is far more haphazard. Tian is not the heaven but the cosmos.

🐐🐐🐐🐐

What a world from a empowered infant to a senile president.

@Brandonhayhew

Ай бұрын

he never was a president he was a senile street cleaner

Puyi might be gay didn't have children a emperor without no kids he probably didn't like women

@Brandonhayhew

Ай бұрын

he grew up with guys without ducks

@ceddiebear

Ай бұрын

He did say that he prefers the "land way" than the "water way" so...

Babe wake up history of china uploaded a video

Hhhmmmm whose copying who?

sad ending of the Chinese imperial system!!!

Damn you, copyright abuse

Only son of heaven? I am the son of god.

So, then... the emperor was actually a queen.

rewriting history again

Why is it Chinese peopled and Japanese peoples believes sun and moon .Now what is this heaven son how did woman sleep with heaven people. Only dead peoples with good hearts goes to heaven.

Puyi whole life he was just a puppet

Bad puyi

The most useless emperor

@michaelahern6821

8 күн бұрын

The film the last emperor is way too generous towards him ..

I'm not Chinese but this bio of Puyi still gives me goosebumpsof his life

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