What Happened to the Last Emperor of China? 

wow deberian hacer una pelicula de su vida, que gran video

I dread looking at the Big Nepal in the entire Plateau

Cool video, please make a video on Nader Shah.

please make a video on the life of Nader Shah - "Persian Napoleon" I the future, please

OMG Moree pls Empress dowager CiXi

"From Emperor, to Citizen"

There's a cool photo out there of puyi habging out with senior officers involved in the wuchang uprising.

​@tekinfomediactually the last hier of the emperors who ran the Ming Dynasty got a title "Marquis of Supreme Grace" but he disappeared in Shanghai somewhere in the 20s-30s... We still dont know what happened to him iirc

​@@shinybreloom4027 Fun Fact: China's Premiers from the 1990s to early 2000s, Zhu Rongji, is a direct descendent of the Ming Dynasty Ruling House of Zhu

@@kwanlinus6999 应该不可能。明朝皇室被李自成的农民起义军屠杀完了！

Makes you wonder too what happened to his whipping boys.

He became a gardener

Rather similar fate to the Korean Monarchy.... the current Korean Pretender is a Janitor, I beleive...

And Wanrong's life was just tragic

Nearly identically to the lyrics of Viva La Vida

If I were to be a last Emperor I would rather go out like a Constantine XI Palaelogos, than end up like a Yazdegerd of the Sassanids. Though the best thing to do would be to pull an Abd Al-Rahman and go create another empire.

@@curranlakhani I would definitely want to live the life of Abd al-Rahman. Heir to a powerful Empire, only to be deposed & hunted down like a dog. Then I end up in Hispania & create my own Kingdom. If I was the last monarch, then I agree, I'll go down fighting like Constantine XI

How about first and last emperor?? That's some bragging rights right there 😅

King Louis XVI and Tsar Nicholas II have joined the chat.

@@barbiqueareaGood men who loved their countries and died as martyrs.

That was his father, Zaifeng, who said that, not any other officials

@@atNguyen-gm9xiright, I forgot, will make the edit

Zaifeng knew.

His dad was definitely one of the smarter people left in the imperial government by this time, so he definitely knew. I mean, he also survived into Mao's China and remained well-respected in Beijing.

he was way too young when he was spoiled. Theres no time for education, he was no Kangxi. if kangxi was in his position, when the general restored him to throne 2nd he would have done something to keep his power. he is sort of just a little tyrant in imperial palace and then go through a reality check. I guess he should thank mao for giving him a reality check

Exactly. This was one of his smartest decisions among a cavalcade of stupid ones, and the way his rehabilitation was approached was also intelligent on the part of the party functionaries.

Yeah that was a brilliant chess move by the reds. They essentially turned the biggest offender in class struggle into their utopic "New Man" of communism. The perfect propaganda.

True. At least there still family members of Puyi that is still alive in this day and age that could rule as the next line of Emperor, but need to make sure that people in China is on common ground as ruling state with communist in certain agreements. I know that won’t happen, but if there is some weird agreement in some ways, then it ‘might’ happen. Time will tell.

What are the many reasons China today exists and is now the second biggest superpower in the world following the United States the only differences that China not only has a 10 times higher literacy rate than America does. It’s rising continuously while the US is on the decline.

@@sidp5381As a Chinese person: lmao China’s demographic issues alone due to the One Child Policy will eventually cause an economic collapse that’d make Japan’s in the Lost Decade seem puny by comparison.

He speaks English because of his obsession with western culture.

His Manchu is not bad as many people believe, he just want to avoid problem.

That's kinda disappointing.

@@reis1185 he speaks english because he's the emperor and he had private tutors

@@reis1185 清朝的统治本来就是不合理，甚至清朝的出现都是不正确的，他不敢说满语，清朝之所以能够统治中国，是因为中国的内乱导致，溥仪是满洲人不是汉族，没有汉族血脉无法成为中国天子，只有汉族才是龙的子民，我们对自己的皇帝称呼只有陛下或者天子，不会直接称呼皇帝，清朝没有中国文化，甚至与中国文化相反，清朝有军队时，可以镇压汉族，清朝的军队被西方人毁灭，汉族崛起重新建立中国

Hello there

@@EnclaveEmily Hi, Emily. How ya doing? Welcome to club "We see Alex everywhere".

Coldplay make song for puyi after all

Lmao

满族人的统治本来就是一种错误，汉族人治理中国才是应该的

On the one hand, he was deliberately raised with no real relationships or proper education (thus why he was such an awful and clearly resentful child) so he was never able to develop properly to know what to do or how to do things without others taking control of his life and decisions, and on the other hand he was clearly aware (and afraid) about the crimes and horrors of japanese occupation and went along with them anyway. It's hard to blame him but he also clearly was wrong. And you're right, it does seem like he regretted his involvement after his communist indoctrination, which again, he was powerless to resist considering his upbringing

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 I personally view Emperor Puyi as a very tragic figure of history. A victim of circumstances beyond his age and ability to confront, for the crime of being born into a position he had no say in or control over.

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 So was the way he ruled the reason for the Chinese revolution?

@@anonisnoone6125 he abdicated when he was 5 years old during his mother's regency. Later on he was also never exposed to the horrors of the japanese occupation of manchukuo (although he was vaguely aware of their reputation and he was afraid of their fanaticism) and as the video says, nothing he decreed actually mattered as he wasn't actually in control even then.

@@barbiquearea He definitely had a say and control, the issue is he never learned how to politic or understand what was happening very well. I agree though

Despite his ignominious end, I think he was personally happier to be with himself rather than being burdened with a title and responsibility.

Would be cool to tell the story of his fall intermixed with a story about a nobody rising to power. Not easy but if done right it would be a must read for decades if not centuries.

​@pheralanpathfinder4897 just in case you didn't know but I was the last Chinese emperor😎

I wonder if the British are ever going to wake up?

@garbonomics nah they can stay sleep after all I'm the last emperor😎

this is something so mundane and so simply stupid its probably real.

My dad told us that he played basketball with the Jackson 5 when they came to Jamaica in the 1970's. I have no reason to doubt him or think it's not true. Your dad was probably telling the truth. Tell your family story with confidence. Who cares what people think.

This is amazing

If that is a true story then it might offer some deeper insight into his psyche. He didn't receive any real parenting, any sort of order or discipline, so he just wanted to ride around freely. He had no boundaries, he accepted none, too. And that seems to be his biggest regret, if this story is true. It's quite meaningful actually, not just a trivia.

The door stop removing is actually a confirmed fact! 😮

Great movie

Thank you for adding this to a video that wasn’t much more than a rehash of The Last Emperor and PY’s autobiographer…

@tekinfomedi That isn't the point. The Japanese gave him a palace where he could resume his opulent imperial life and when things went sour he turned on them instantly and gave testimony that got many of them killed. The fact that the Japanese were never going to give him any share in power is irrelevant. He doesn't deserve any. It actually betrays a certain amount of Confucianist traditionalism that there are people in modern China who think he was wronged by them keeping him from power. Why? What right did he have to power? All he ever did was pop out of a fortuitous womb. The simple fact is that the Japanese gave him every luxury he didn't deserve, spoiled him rotten without demanding any work out of him, and he sent them to their deaths. Edit: Also, Li Wenda is on record writing that when he went through Puyi's self-correction essays from the time he stayed in the gulag, he found statements by Puyi admitting that he flat out lied about his own level of involvement in the Manchukuo administration in his war crimes testimonies. Basically, the Russians told him to just blame everything on the Japanese and he complied. In Puyi's own self-correction essays he expressed regret that he got his Japanese friends hanged and never got punished himself for his complicity.

For an introductory video it's not too bad. Thanks for adding

@tekinfomedi I sometimes find it strange that people in the modern era could consider Puyi to have been somehow "wronged" by the Japanese not sharing any power with him. This is a very Confucianist way of thinking. Puyi's only qualification was popping out of a fortuitous womb. He doesn't deserve power. In any case, what I'm talking about is Puyi's own accounting - HIS ACTUAL VERSION OF HISTORY (not the sanitized autobiography) - of how he betrayed his Japanese allies, written as part of the series of self-correction essays he had to write in the gulag. Go search Li Wenda's account of what Puyi wrote about his relationship with the Japanese in those essays. In Puyi's own words, he admitted that he had been a willing participant in the Japanese Manchukuo project, had been pampered by them with his palace and life of luxury, and had participated in the administration of the state. He HIMSELF expressed regret that at the end, when the Russians told him to blame everything on the Japanese, he complied and testified against them in the war crimes tribunals, in effect sending many of his closest Japanese allies to their deaths. Li decided to omit all of this when he worked with Puyi on writing the famous autobiography because it would have been very poorly received by the Chinese public.

@tekinfomedi But the contents of the final autobiography are NOT Puyi's version of history. Go look up Li Wenda's writings after he was freed from GPCR confinement. Li originally used Puyi's self-correction essays as the source for the autobiography, but had to discard much of it due to excessive honesty. So what did Puyi actually say about his cooperation with the Japanese? He admitted that they treated him well, that he was more involved in Manchukuo administration than he later admitted, and that the Minami Jiro letter was real. Furthermore, he expressed REGRET that after all that, he followed along with the instruction of his captors to just blame everything on the Japanese during his testimony in the war crimes tribunals, sending many of his closest Japanese friends to their deaths.

In good days, the system should supply him with trusted and best advisors, filtered through rigorous imperial exams. Alas, due to the Confucian inheritance system - through blood instead of meritocracy (actually makes sense when it is done to stop endless debate and violent show-offs about who's actually better) - it resulted in the fear of imperial court inner circle males impregnating Royal house members - hence the closest imperial servants are castrated. He was born during the bad days of the Empire - no one good, wise, or sane wanted to join the exam, enter the court, and save the emperor. The guy was already surrounded by plotting, dishonest eunuch faction. It is not the system, it is also the circumstances.

Pu Yi was definitely a victim of circumstance in his youth as without any guidence he was essentially Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones. However as an adult he continued having his arrogant and privileged lifestyle and openly collaborated with the Japanese who were brutalizing the Chinese people

这只是洪秀全的借口，他的目的是把汉族人从满清统治者中解放出来，2000万人的死亡主要是满族统治者对汉族人的屠杀

Wrong,dude actually read the bible and study a lot from it ,he even had a debat with christian cleric,some of his ideology was quite advanced such as promoting gender equality when women cant even vote in west at the same time.But he went corrupt fast after gaining power.

I would love to see origin of Manchu tribes and how they are different from mongols.

@@ironheart5830manchus aren’t nomads like the mongols. They are semi hunter gathers semi farmers. Manchus speak a Tungustic language while Mongols speak a Mongolie language.

@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj interesting

@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 그들은 어부 로도 유명했고 해적으로도 유명했음 중세에는 한국 일본에 해적질을 하다가 고려에게 토벌당함

중국 한족과 ,키탄 , 몽골족 ,코리안들은 만주의 부족들이 통합하지 못하도록 이간질을 하고 자신들에게 협조 하는 부족에게 상품을 주고 무역권을 주면서 통제하고 반항을 하면 주기적으로 군대를 보내서 주르첸 부족민을 죽였음

He was used for nothing more than an epitome for everything bad of the ancient/imperial Chinese social structure, as mentioned in the video, and that was almost the only reason for Mao and other communist leaders decided to let him out of that Chinese gulag and allowed him to live on

How he was treated is a testament to the power and glory of the Qing Dynasty. Huge swaths of the populace, whether communist or republicans grew up in the iron grip of the Qing Dynasty and their government systems. The reverence and acknowledgment of the supreme power of the emperor, was not going to disappear by his mere dethronement.

@@danielc9967 You may not know that Mao joined the army to overthrow the Qing Dynasty when he was still a student. Most of the senior officials, politicians and generals of the Republic of China and the early PRC were committed to overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in their early years, and many of them had relatives killed by the Qing Dynasty. The so-called recognition of the supreme power of the Qing emperor is ridiculous. Later facts also confirmed this statement. In 1917, Puyi was expelled by the warlords of the Republic of China after only twelve days of restoration. There are only two reasons why Puyi was treated well. The first is that the warlords in China were busy fighting for the rule of China and had no time to kill Puyi. The second is that Puyi was still valuable, both for the Chinese and the Japanese.

@@ingstimated1873 “Puyi was still valuable, to the Chinese and Japanese “ - Case in Point!

@@danielc9967 别扯淡了，中国人不是日本人，我们对皇帝没有什么尊重，“王侯将相宁有种乎！”你能理解这句古文的意思吗？Puyi用处仅仅是展示CPC的改造能力而已

Just thinking the same thing about him referring to Wanrong as Puyi's "Junkie wife". The poor woman was probably traumatised after having been married to the guy!

The Romanovs would have led a counter revolution, say what you will about them but the Romanovs are Russian, and no matter how easy their lives are, they’re still made of tough stuff.

@@jonathanwells223 bullshit, I am from Russia and we are not some superhumans you think we are from your dumb movies, maybe not as soft as the westerners today but nothing unordinary. And except, Romanovs were like 95% German after all the intermarrying and always spoke foreign languages at home up to the last few decades. And all they would do is run away to France like all the other their relatives and countless other European aristocrats from the east. Nikolai was weak, his son was too young and physically weak, his relatives were also weak or dead, there would be no counter revolution, no basis for it at all

They would leave Russia and marry back into other European royal families.

@@jonathanwells223 Pretty much. A relative of theirs who I think is a princess, still lives in London with her children today

Romanov especially nicolas II is too stubborn to change even thier given anything they need for constitutional monarchy but it can't fully blame everything at him as Russia political reform always flip flop for centuries since Peter the great.

Another interesting family is the former royal family of Romania, which today are white trash living in the Midwest

That was before they chopped off his head.

At least Puyi kept his head and got to live life

He went from being a king to a farmer, while Mao did the opposite.

@@barbiquearea emperor to street cleaner

Actually a very good point!

​@AlphaSections just in case you didn't know I was the last Chinese emperor😎

@@marcel-ifc17 so my joke wasn't funny 😒

say what you want about him, he was the most Beijing Beijinger. he lived there for almost his entire life and witnessed the world he knew change over and over. isn't that something?

"In reality, that emperor welded as much legislative power as a MacDonald's crew manager".

Sun did this and gave one of Puyi's relics to Chiang Kai-Shek's wife as a gift before he was exiled and the Ma clan fought a subjugation war.

Compared to what happened to Ming royalty Manchu royalty got real lucky

So Puyi was mad at Chinese soldiers who looted the tombs of his ancestors, so he decided to ally with Japan who looted and ravaged his ancestral homeland and former empire?

"Mandate of Heaven" is a sign, never something that is given. If the country is full of disasters, misery, suffering, famine, poverty, etc... the Emperor simply lost it. Of course the supporter faction will try their best to paint a different picture as best as they could. Qin Shi Huang (Ying Zheng) generally has 2 origin stories: 1) A son of imprisoned Prince, given to neighbouring state of Zhao by Qin, as a hostage to end hostilities. Qin court has no male heir. So, the most ambitious entrepreneur of all time, Lu Buwei made an "investment" in buying The Prince of Qin's freedom . He arranged a marriage between the Prince and a noble lady, but the Prince chose Lu's dancer (kinda like a geisha) and concubine... so he raised another series of "funding" and let go of his favourite concubine. The concubine gets pregnant - and this boy become Qin Shi Huang. The old and frail Prince finally ruled as a king for 2 years before kicking the bucket. Lu Buwei who already have pre-existing relationship with the Queen mother become the "King father" - such a return on investment 2) A speculation that says Lu Buwei actually impregnated his dancer, before he gave her over to Prince of Qin, making Qin Shi Huang illegitimate child - who knows, there was no DNA test back then Qin Shi Huang is no general, he is a paranoid kid grow up in a court chock full of palace intrigues and illegitimate and immoral relationships.

The last emperor of China was actually (yuan shi kai); although he was overthrown not long after the coronation.

Yeah... I dunno, I don't like it - it is weird

Not the first time ive noticed the wierd pop culture references like a tech tree in this video and austin powers in another vid

@@marcurius5749 Oh yeah when I say I find it amusing I mean for the wrong reasons lol, the writers should account for the presenter's delivery. The jokes don't land when delivered in monotone.

Makes it pretty funny imo 😂

@@SomasAcademy Yeah I got your meaning :)

不可能，占人口绝大多数的汉人为什么要接受一个满人皇帝

that caught me off-guard lol

Fr I nearly pissed myself after hearing that😂

Most of the audience liked the video, so I am not sure what you are talking about. You can't speak for other people. prnt.sc/QzBG4aN625at

You mean Cleopatra? Or the last native pharaoh, Nectanebo II?

@@Latinkon I googled and yeah, it’s Cleopatra. Never heard of Nectanebo II, the last native pharaoh. Can you tell me more about him?

He fit in well with the communists it seems…

I thought the movie was great too!

it's hearsay but apparently the descendant of the last Tokugawa attends literature events and analyses of Saikaku somewhere in California. Certainly not a disreputable state for the family line, at least. It doesn't surprise me that people of high repute choose to work in a bar of all places. Not a bad way to listen to stories.

溥仪的确说谎了，但是是在伪满州国部分他自己的自传和日本人的记录冲突了😂

Cool story

I disagree. In a lot of ways, Cixi's actions allowed the Qing dynasty to stay in power longer than it really should have been able to maintain. Maybe that wasn't good for China as a whole, but its questionable whether the dynasty would have even made it into the 20th century were it not for her. It was her network of spies and political shrewdness that prevented the state from collapsing up until her death. Just look at Yuan Shi Kai. He was like a trained kitten under Cixi.

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Qing's downfall was already in motion after qianlong used up most of the treasury for his conquests, he also turned a blind eye towards the corruption by his subordinates like he shen.

Do u where to watch Chinese history in RU-vid?​@@lyhthegreat

​@@lyhthegreat Agree Qianlong reign saw the peak of Qing Dynasty during his early years and show a rapid decline in the dynasty during his later reign due to his indulgence and negligence in the corruption

@@benjaminsente7430 yes he was totally powerless his whole life

I don't think I can think of a better song to sum up the life of Pu Yi.

YUAN SHIKAI?

Xi Jin Ping，now is a actually emperor😂

@@kedaya-n8p The amendment of the Constitution is indeed wrong, but for the Chinese, most of them are in a state of spiritual seclusion except for some diplomatic and inspection activities. For some absurd policies, the Chinese will only blame the department that issued them.