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Puyi
(
Wade-Giles
:
Pu-i
; 7 Februar 1906 ? 17 October 1967), o the
Manchu
Aisin Gioro
clan, wis the last
Emperor o Cheenae
an the twelft an final ruler o the
Qing Dynasty
. Still a bairn, he ruled as the
Xuantong Emperor
(Wade-Giles:
Hsuan-tung Emperor
) frae 1908 til his abdication on 12 Februar 1912, efter the successfu
Xinhai Revolution
. Frae 1 tae 12 Julie 1917 he wis briefly restored tae the throne as a nominal emperor bi the warlord
Zhang Xun
. In 1934 he wis declared the
Kangde Emperor
(Wade-Giles:
Kang-te Emperor
) o the puppet state o
Manchukuo
bi the
Empire o Japan
, an he ruled til the end o the
Seicont Sino-Japanese War
in 1945. Efter the
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
wis established in 1949, Puyi wis imprisoned as a war criminal for 10 years, wrote his memoirs, an acame a member o the
Cheenese Fowk's Poleetical Consultative Conference
.
Puyi's abdication in 1912 merked the end o millennia o dynastic rule in Cheenae an sicweys he is kent throughout the warld bi the
sobriquet
"The Last Emperor" o Cheenae.
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