Puyi

Puyi was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty. He was later ruler of the puppet state of Manchukuo under the Empire of Japan from 1934 to 1945. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate at the age of six in 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution. His era name as Qing emperor, Xuantong, means "proclamation of unity". Puyi was briefly restored to the throne as Qing emperor by the loyalist General Zhang Xun from 1 July to 12 July 1917. He was first wed to Empress Wanrong in 1922 in an arranged marriage. In 1924, he was expelled from the Forbidden City and found refuge in Tianjin, where he began to court both the warlords fighting for hegemony over China and the Japanese who had long desired control of China. In 1932, he accepted the offer of the Japanese to become the emperor of Manchukuo, a puppet state in Manchuria. He ruled there until 1945, when the Soviet invasion of Manchuria ended his reign and he was captured by the Red Army. He was imprisoned in the Soviet Union until 1950, when he was handed over to the People's Republic of China. He was re-educated and reformed by the Communist Party of China, and later worked as a gardener and editor in Beijing. He wrote his autobiography, From Emperor to Citizen, in 1964. He died of kidney cancer in 1967 at the age of 61. He was buried in the Hualong Imperial Cemetery, the resting place of the Qing emperors.