death_date regent birth_date reign father house death_place title image_size spouse image name realm caption predecessor succession birth_place successor mother article_title
17 october 1967 zaifeng yikuang , prince qing -lrb- 1911 -rrb- 2 = yuan , shikai -lrb- 1911 -- 1912 -rrb- zhang xun -lrb- 1917 prince -rrb- list zheng xiaoxu -lrb- 1932 -- 1935 -rrb- 2 chun = zhang jinghui -lrb- 1935 -- 1945 -rrb- & empress dowager longyu list 7 february 1906 1 1945 march 1934 & nbsp ; -- 15 august zaifeng , prince chun house of aisin gioro beijing , people 's republic of china xuantong kangde emperor of manchukuo emperor of the great qing datong of manchukuo 220 empress shuxian wanrong consort wenxiu tan yuling li yuqin li aisin-gioro puyi 01.jpg aisin gioro puyi china puyi in 1934 guangxu emperor border 22px emperor of manchukuo beijing , qing empire none , monarchy abolished guwalgiya youlan puyi

puyi

puyi -lrb- ; 7 february 1906 -- 17 october 1967 -rrb- , of the manchu aisin gioro clan , commonly known as henry pu yi -lrb- pu-yi ; -rrb- , was the last emperor of china and the twelfth and final ruler of the qing dynasty .
while still a child , he ruled as the xuantong emperor -lrb- -rrb- from 1908 until his abdication on 12 february 1912 , after the successful xinhai revolution .
from 1 to 12 july 1917 , he was briefly restored to the throne as a nominal emperor by the warlord zhang xun .
in 1932 , after the occupation of manchuria and manchukuo was established by japan , he was chosen in assuming the title of chief executive of the new state using the era name of datong -lrb- ta-tung -rrb- .
in 1934 , he was declared the kangde emperor -lrb- kang-te emperor -rrb- 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 imprisoned as a war criminal for ten years , wrote his memoirs , and became a member of the chinese people 's political consultative conference and the national people 's congress .
