When Wanrong became the Empress of China, she was already ruling over a ghost land. In a matter of months, her country ...

Less is known about Puyi's wife Wanrong and her American tutor, Isabel Ingram You may already know the story of Reginald Johnston, the British tutor to the final Dragon Emperor of the Qing dynasty ...

Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and ...

Henry Puyi may have lived his final days as a commoner, but his life was anything but ordinary. China’s last emperor, Puyi ascended to the Qing dynasty throne at age three, only to be stripped ...

Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria. All this had a profound effect on ...

OPENS MARCH 12, CERT 15, 218 MINS The Last Emperor tells the story of Pu Yi, installed as Lord Of Ten Thousand Years in 1908 at age three, only for Imperial China to become a republic a few years ...

This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his ...

The year after China's last emperor, Puyi, left the royal residence in 1924, it became a public museum. Thanks to its rich history and abundant imperial legacies, over 1.86 million cultural relics ...

Bertolucci’s epic tracing the life of Pu Yi, who became China’s last Godlike emperor aged three and then, deposed by revolution, had to learn to live as a gardener. Contrasting the splendour ...