Aisin-Gioro Puyi (愛新覺羅．溥儀)
Puyi (7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967), of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, was the last Emperor of China, and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. He ruled as the Xuantong Emperor from 1908 until his abdication on 12 February 1912. From 1 to 12 July 1917 he was briefly restored to the throne as a nominal emperor by the warlord Zhang Xun. In 1934 he was declared the Kangde Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo by the Empire of Japan, and he ruled until the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. After the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, Puyi was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1964 until his death in 1967. Puyi's abdication in 1912 marked the end of centuries of dynastic rule in China, and he is also widely known as The Last Emperor.
When Pu Yi was 16, it was decided that the time had come for him to marry. His advisers showed him pictures of four Manchu girls and told him to pick one. He chose a 13-year old girl named Wen Hsiu, whom his advisers considered too ugly to become Empress. They made him choose another girl, Wan Jung, also called Elizabeth, who came from a rich family and was considered "acceptable." And because Pu Yi had expressed an interest in Wen Hsiu, it was deemed improper that she should be married to someone else. Instead, Pu Yi took her as his concubine.
Pu Yi maintained that as emperor of Manchukuo, he was a mere puppet of the Japanese government.
It wasn't until 1950 that Pu Yi would return to China. Immediately after his return, he was sent to a prison camp to be re-educated. As a sign of his re-education, he voluntarily gave up the priceless imperial seal that he had always carried with him.
He stayed at a labor camp for nine years, only being released in 1959 after receiving pardon from Mao Zedong. Already in his fifties, he went to live in his father's house. He was assigned to work as a gardener at the Academy of Sciences' Institute of Botany. In 1962, he married Li Shuxian, a nurse from a small Beijing hospital. He was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 1964 until his death in 1967. The transformation from emperor to citizen was complete.
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