he Last Emperor of China, Puyi


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China is on my mind, what with the Winter Olympic Games with no snow, and China’s repression of the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group in Northwest China’s Xinjiangan region. There is also its “Male Feminization” problem. That’s not some throwaway line on social media, it is the Chinese communist government’s actual policy which plans to strengthen physical education for the nation’s adolescent boys to combat the perceived phenomenon.

China, officially the People’s Republic of China, is the world’s most populous country, with a more than 1.4 billion people. China spans five geographical time zones and borders 14 different countries. It is the second most of any country in the world after Russia. It has an ancient history; which goes back to at least 2100 BC.

In 1909, Puyi was named emperor of China when he was three years old by his aunt, the dying dowager Empress Cixi. His parents found out about their son’s ascension to the throne when palace officials, servants and eunuchs arrived at their home to take him away. The screaming toddler was bundled into a carriage and driven away to the massive Forbidden City palace complex in the center of Beijing.
Puyi lived a life of immense privilege in the Forbidden City, where he was treated as a living god. He was attended to by his many servants, including eunuchs who were required to wear their pickled genitals in jars hung from their necks. They catered to his every whim. This led the young emperor to develop a cruel streak. He was particularly fond of having his eunuchs flogged and making them get down on their knees and eat dirt.

Puyi continued to indulge in his cruelties as he grew older, free from parents that would have ordinarily restrained a youngster. Not even a revolution in 1911, when he was forced to abdicate, changed anything. The newly formed Republic of China government decided to treat him as a foreign monarch, allowing him to continue residing in the Forbidden City, still able to enjoy all his privileges.

After a failed attempt to restore the monarchy in 1917, it was decided that the 16-year-old former emperor should take a bride. He examined photographs of teenage girls, picking one at random. His choice was dismissed, and he was instead told he would be marrying pretty Gobulo Wanrong, but his original choice could still be his concubine.

The pair were married in 1922. The marriage was never consummated. Yet, they got along at the beginning, riding their bicycles around the Forbidden City, and having wacky Chinese fun. But when the relationship eventually soured, it brought disastrous consequences for poor Wanrong.

The couple’s time in the Forbidden City ended suddenly when the fierce warlord General Feng Yuxiang captured Beijing in 1924 and ordered Puyi and his wife to leave the palace. Fearing for his life, Puyi took refuge at the Japanese embassy, and later he made it to the Japanese controlled city of Tianjin, where a small court was set up for him in a house known as the Garden of Serenity.
Life in the Garden of Serenity was boring for the young couple. Wanrong began smoking opium to relieve the tedium of being an empress who was expected to do nothing. Meanwhile, Puyi wanted more out of life than being an exile. He wrote a letter to the Japanese Minister for War, asking to be restored to his throne.

Puyi was then relocated to the Japanese colony of Manchukuo in northeast China, where he was crowned emperor in 1934 and installed at the Salt Tax Palace in the city of Changchun. But, he was just a puppet monarch who was expected to defer to the Japanese emperor. He would remain emperor of the colony until it was conquered by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.

As the Soviets closed in on Changchun, Puyi’s court was packed up and the emperor, his opium-addicted wife, eunuchs, concubines, and servants left the city by train. Sadly, they had nowhere to go. The Soviets had bombed all the train stations in the surrounding area. Puyi and the male members of his court escaped the city by plane, only to be caught by the Soviets in the city of Shenyang.