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    Henry Puyi - The Caged Emperor

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    Henry Puyi, who became emperor at age 3, was confined to the Forbidden City after China became a republic. As a child, he did not understand that he was no longer the true ruler of China. During his confinement, his Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston provided his education and encouraged him to escape. At age 20, Puyi escaped the Forbidden City by getting married. However, he later became a puppet emperor for Japan in Manchuria. After World War 2, Puyi was imprisoned for 10 years by communists and made to confess his crimes, including his collaboration with the Japanese. He wrote his memoirs and took up gardening.

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    Henry Puyi, who became emperor at age 3, was confined to the Forbidden City after China became a republic. As a child, he did not understand that he was no longer the true ruler of China. During his confinement, his Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston provided his education and encouraged him to escape. At age 20, Puyi escaped the Forbidden City by getting married. However, he later became a puppet emperor for Japan in Manchuria. After World War 2, Puyi was imprisoned for 10 years by communists and made to confess his crimes, including his collaboration with the Japanese. He wrote his memoirs and took up gardening.

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    Henry Puyi, who became emperor at age 3, was confined to the Forbidden City after China became a republic. As a child, he did not understand that he was no longer the true ruler of China. During his confinement, his Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston provided his education and encouraged him to escape. At age 20, Puyi escaped the Forbidden City by getting married. However, he later became a puppet emperor for Japan in Manchuria. After World War 2, Puyi was imprisoned for 10 years by communists and made to confess his crimes, including his collaboration with the Japanese. He wrote his memoirs and took up gardening.

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    Henry Puyi - The Caged Emperor

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    Henry Puyi, who became emperor at age 3, was confined to the Forbidden City after China became a republic. As a child, he did not understand that he was no longer the true ruler of China. During his confinement, his Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston provided his education and encouraged him to escape. At age 20, Puyi escaped the Forbidden City by getting married. However, he later became a puppet emperor for Japan in Manchuria. After World War 2, Puyi was imprisoned for 10 years by communists and made to confess his crimes, including his collaboration with the Japanese. He wrote his memoirs and took up gardening.

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    Ellaine Denice H.

    Marallag

    2HST2

    HST312

    Henry Puyi or Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi was only three years old when he was installed
    in the Forbidden City by the ruthless Empress. The infant emperor at the very young
    age accepted his responsibilities and privileges of his office. When China was declared
    as a republic, he became a prisoner in his own place. He was told that he was only
    protected from the outside world. Sadly, as an emperor, considered as a god, he can do
    anything he wishes except to leave the great Forbidden City in Peking. He asked the
    High Tutor Ar Mo if he is still emperor. The High Tutor replies, "You will always be the
    emperor inside the Forbidden City, but not outside. Outside", Pu Yi is informed, "China
    is now a republic, with a president." He also learned in the magazines that he was
    ignorant of the convulsions experienced by his own country.
    His Scottish tutor who was named Reginald Johnston during the May Fourth
    Movement comes out to instruct him in the ways of Europe, and the youth becomes an
    anglophile, dreaming of "escaping" to Cambridge. He used Johnston as his only source
    for genuine information about conditions outside the Forbidden City. Johnston gives him
    a bicycle upon which the emperor attempts an escape. When that failed, he tried a
    rooftop escape but it failed again. When Johnston determines that the lad needs
    spectacles, he must threaten to publicize the pathetic facts of the emperor's captivity to
    coerce the Lord Chamberlain into allowing the emperor to wear them. Johnston advises
    him to escape instead into marriage. At the age of twenty, he escaped from his cocoon
    taking with him his empress and concubine. He moved into Tientsin and lives like a
    western playboy dressed in a tuxedo at a dance party.

    As World War II grows closer, he was unconnected to the world except to the
    Japanese who set him up as their puppet in Manchuria, home of his ancestors. His wife
    also becomes an opium addict and begins sexual relationship with a lesbian Japanese
    Spy. Everything was changed when his tutor returned to England and he got so lost
    and then the communist took over China. He was captured by the Russian who later on
    handed him over to their new allies. He was put into re-education process since he was
    a grown man that doesn't know anything about the world yet. He doesnt know how to
    tie his own shoes or turn off the tap after filling a glass with drinking water.
    After World War II, he was imprisoned for 10 years by the communists. The
    prison governor took him to confess his crimes. He is told to first write his name but
    since he has been given only chalk and the floor is slate, he wrote his name on the floor.
    His interrogator establishes the ground rules and then begins by asking why he thinks
    he's there. He responded that one might think him an innocent bystander to China's
    recent history. The interrogator throwa both Pu Yi's response and his autobiography
    back into his face because he demands serious confession. He began his confession
    with him sitting on a golden armchair espousing reforms. He cuts off his queue, the
    woven ponytail that signifies Manchu domination, the cutting of which was, until
    recently, treasonous. He then replaced the Lord Chamberlain and proposes an audit of
    the imperial storerooms. That night the eunuchs burn the storerooms to prevent
    discovery of their thefts. The next day, he expelled the eunuchs with the help of
    republican troops. He finished his confession staring the whole time at his name on the
    floor. The prison governor asks about the Japanese because they all want to know
    about the Japanese like how and when did his friendship with the Japanese begin?
    During which time he writes his memoirs and from an emperor, he became a gardener.

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