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Aisin-Gioro Puyi 愛新覺羅·溥儀 | |
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| Born | Aisin-Gioro Puyi (愛新覺羅·溥儀) February 7, 1906 Prince Chun Mansion, Beijing, Qing Empire |
| Died | October 17, 1967 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
Aisin-Gioro Puyi was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty monarch. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate on February 12, 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution. His era name as Qing emperor, Xuantong (Hsuan-tung, 宣統), means "proclamation of unity". He was later installed as the Emperor Kangde (康德) of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.