What Happened to the Last Emperor of China?

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  • Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2024

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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  4 месяца назад +61

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    • @BrunoDias1234
      @BrunoDias1234 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 4 месяца назад +2

      I dread looking at the Big Nepal in the entire Plateau

    • @zhcultivator
      @zhcultivator 4 месяца назад +1

      Cool video, please make a video on Nader Shah.

    • @zhcultivator
      @zhcultivator 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @kyisin7457
    @kyisin7457 4 месяца назад +1015

    He didn't die as a gardener. He was an editor of the literary department under CPPCC, which can be considered a quite comfortable life in Mao's era. He also wrote his own autobiography, widely travelled across China, and made amend with many of his former enemies before he died.

    • @Ferrum_Intra
      @Ferrum_Intra 4 месяца назад +111

      "From Emperor, to Citizen"

    • @rp-hr1qs
      @rp-hr1qs 4 месяца назад +48

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

    • @shinybreloom4027
      @shinybreloom4027 4 месяца назад +10

      ​@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

    • @kwanlinus6999
      @kwanlinus6999 4 месяца назад +10

      ​@@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

    • @snowlee-ml7rr
      @snowlee-ml7rr 4 месяца назад

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

  • @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
    @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 4 месяца назад +788

    From the emperor of all of China to a humble street sweeper. What an interesting life.

    • @ilovemesomme
      @ilovemesomme 4 месяца назад +35

      Makes you wonder too what happened to his whipping boys.

    • @Naikomi95
      @Naikomi95 4 месяца назад +19

      He became a gardener

    • @gradipadia9800
      @gradipadia9800 4 месяца назад +24

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

    • @sanneoi6323
      @sanneoi6323 4 месяца назад +6

      And Wanrong's life was just tragic

    • @Godzilla00X
      @Godzilla00X 4 месяца назад +16

      Nearly identically to the lyrics of Viva La Vida

  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT 4 месяца назад +1382

    Everyone wants to be Emperor. Nobody wants to be the Last Emperor.

    • @curranlakhani
      @curranlakhani 4 месяца назад +102

      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.

    • @iDeathMaximuMII
      @iDeathMaximuMII 4 месяца назад +64

      @@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

    • @austinguthrie5528
      @austinguthrie5528 4 месяца назад +12

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

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +16

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

    • @Michel411
      @Michel411 4 месяца назад +5

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

  • @rtweugene1
    @rtweugene1 4 месяца назад +317

    @5:16, when Puyi cried that “he wanted to go home” during his coronation, one of the officials (edit: his father) told him “Don’t worry, don’t cry, it will be over soon.” While he was probably talking about the duration of the coronation, some (including the court officials at the coronation) have wondered whether he was ominously implying, and aware, that the empire was about to end soon, which it was, and did.

    • @atNguyen-gm9xi
      @atNguyen-gm9xi 4 месяца назад +35

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

    • @rtweugene1
      @rtweugene1 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @shinybreloom4027
      @shinybreloom4027 4 месяца назад +1

      Zaifeng knew.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 4 месяца назад +18

      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.

    • @benlam496
      @benlam496 4 месяца назад +2

      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

  • @rodm8113
    @rodm8113 4 месяца назад +534

    He undoubtedly was complicit in horrendous acts, but there is legitimate reason to believe that he truly regretted everything he did. He was a product of how he was brought up and raised. To outright call him "evil" would ignore the broader context of his life story.

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 4 месяца назад +66

      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

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +57

      @@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.

    • @anonisnoone6125
      @anonisnoone6125 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 4 месяца назад +20

      @@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.

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 4 месяца назад +6

      @@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

  • @LOLquendoTV
    @LOLquendoTV 4 месяца назад +386

    Say what you will about Mao, not executing Pu Yi and reeducating him instead/showing him the consequences of his colaborationism was a very savvy political move, for reasons described in the video but also because it avoided the situation of the soviets killing the entire romanov house in cold blood, which obviously got them pretty bad PR with other countries

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 4 месяца назад +89

      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.

    • @Ferrum_Intra
      @Ferrum_Intra 4 месяца назад

      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.

    • @sakurapablo671
      @sakurapablo671 4 месяца назад +10

      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.

    • @sidp5381
      @sidp5381 4 месяца назад +12

      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.

    • @gameragodzilla
      @gameragodzilla 4 месяца назад +23

      @@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.

  • @1w114-n3y
    @1w114-n3y 4 месяца назад +213

    Fun fact: After being released from prison, Puyi was invited by the famous Chinese historian Guo Moruo to be his translator and to translate the language of his ancestors, Manchu, but he could no longer speak the language and rejected Guo Moruo's invitation.

    • @reis1185
      @reis1185 4 месяца назад +21

      He speaks English because of his obsession with western culture.

    • @Xinnmg
      @Xinnmg 4 месяца назад +7

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

    • @richmondlandersenfells2238
      @richmondlandersenfells2238 4 месяца назад +1

      That's kinda disappointing.

    • @willl237
      @willl237 4 месяца назад +4

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

    • @polar3553
      @polar3553 4 месяца назад +1

      @@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

  • @muazzamshaikh2049
    @muazzamshaikh2049 4 месяца назад +58

    Sun Yaoting was the last surviving imperial eunuch of Chinese history. The emperor he had hoped to serve, Puyi, was deposed months later. He died in 1996.

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 4 месяца назад +134

    "I used to rule the world... now I sweep the streets I used to own"

    • @EnclaveEmily
      @EnclaveEmily 4 месяца назад +2

      Hello there

    • @Alex_FRD
      @Alex_FRD 4 месяца назад

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

    • @fiornato6393
      @fiornato6393 4 месяца назад +3

      Coldplay make song for puyi after all

    • @LordCoeCoe
      @LordCoeCoe 4 месяца назад +1

      Lmao

    • @郑证
      @郑证 4 месяца назад

      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

  • @franciscojorgesousaandrade
    @franciscojorgesousaandrade 4 месяца назад +225

    Wow, this is a story to be remembered and written, Puyi's biography is a life lesson for all of us on how power, influences, social barriers and twists and turns in life drastically change a person, from emperor to gardener.

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 4 месяца назад +24

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

    • @pheralanpathfinder4897
      @pheralanpathfinder4897 4 месяца назад +1

      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.

    • @tyshawnbryant3468
      @tyshawnbryant3468 4 месяца назад

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

    • @garbonomics
      @garbonomics 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @tyshawnbryant3468
      @tyshawnbryant3468 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @JunkPhuJP
    @JunkPhuJP 4 месяца назад +97

    I’m not a 100% sure if this really happened, but my dad claims he met Puyi as a when Dad was a kid/teen. He came over to the house for dinner, and seemed like a normal person. My dad asked him “What was your biggest regret?”
    “When I was a kid in the Forbidden Palace, I got my first bicycle. I ordered all the red door stoppers for the different gates within the Palace to be removed so I could ride around freely.”
    I got no evidence this meeting took place, nor do I know if this really happened in the Palace. Just wanted to share a possible anecdote.

    • @shinybreloom4027
      @shinybreloom4027 4 месяца назад +25

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

    • @sakura613
      @sakura613 4 месяца назад +15

      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.

    • @ananthapadmanabhan6340
      @ananthapadmanabhan6340 4 месяца назад +1

      This is amazing

    • @OPVSNOVVM
      @OPVSNOVVM 4 месяца назад +1

      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.

    • @angeliquewu8318
      @angeliquewu8318 3 месяца назад +2

      The door stop removing is actually a confirmed fact! 😮

  • @Dfathurr
    @Dfathurr Месяц назад +4

    There is a story when Puyi return to the Forbidden City as a tourist, since of course you need to buy ticket, he mumbled "now i need to pay tickets to go home". However, he still insist to pay
    Other stories tell that during his visit (as a tourist) with guide and other tourists, when the guide show the potrait of Emperor Guangxu (previous emperor before him), Puyi told the guide that he was mistaken. The guide, baffled, say "i don't think we make a mistake. This is already researched by expert historian and archeologist". But Puyi still insist that the potrait is not Emperor Guangxu, to which the guide ask "how do you so assure if this is not him", and Puyi replied "i don't know the potrait of Prince Zaitian (name of Emperor Guangxu), but i know exactly this is not him. This is potrait of Prince Zaifeng, my father". To which the guide silenced

  • @solomonhill8773
    @solomonhill8773 4 месяца назад +48

    His life was recreated in an award winning film, The last Emperor.

  • @KevinTheID
    @KevinTheID 4 месяца назад +106

    What a fascinating story that people don't always talk about - The rulers left behind after a country's fall.
    People like Romulus Augustulus, Puyi, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and even the Romanovs to a lesser degree.
    I don't think we can entirely blame Puyi for becoming the sadistic hedonist that he was in his younger years. We are mainly a product of our circumstances and every whim he had was catered to because of his station as a divine ruler. Plus, he had no actual role models or friends until after his formative years that might have helped temper his more extreme impulses - and by then it took being exposed to terrible war crimes and a decade of prison time to understand what he not only had, but the lives he had damaged along the way. He never understood early on that he could be a different and better person because he had always been so sheltered and no one had ever told him he could be wrong...unless you count his second wife that divorced him.
    He needed perspective, and for better or worse, did get it in the end. He would never rule China again but managed to die the man he could have been on the throne if those circumstances were different.

    • @lolwutyoumad
      @lolwutyoumad 4 месяца назад

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

  • @shaojiewu9805
    @shaojiewu9805 4 месяца назад +11

    I'm glad that unit 731 was mentioned, it needs to be known by more people.

  • @JohnnyElRed
    @JohnnyElRed 4 месяца назад +59

    Honestly, given the system he was born and forced into at such a young age, could he had come out as anything else than a cruel, petty tyrant? Up until his imprisonment, is not like he had any chance or motivation to reflect upon his actions.

    • @yohannessulistyo4025
      @yohannessulistyo4025 4 месяца назад +4

      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.

    • @Spongebrain97
      @Spongebrain97 4 месяца назад +5

      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

  • @andrewsuryali8540
    @andrewsuryali8540 4 месяца назад +105

    This is the mythicized version of Puyi's life, though. It's mostly based on his autobiography. The problem is that this book completely sanitizes the real history of his attempts to reform the imperial palace by ejecting his (loyal) eunuchs, his actually SUCCESSFUL collaboration with several Chinese warlords before the Manchukuo era that may have held back Chinese reunification for a few years, his life in Manchukuo (which reads like Game of Thrones), his betrayal of his Japanese allies through his testimony in the war crimes tribunals, and the fact that he was an important member of the Chinese Communist Party who helped them write official histories of the late Qing Dynasty and restore the Forbidden City. He didn't die as a gardener. He was an official working for the CPPCC who wrote a lot of essays for the CPPCC's propaganda department and lived in relative luxury in a big house provided to him by the government. As he was actually a close friend of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong during his stay in Beijing from 1959 onwards and was a famous public figure who often appeared on TV., when Mao launched the GPCR in 1966, Puyi was accosted by Red Guards who recognized him on the street. This led Puyi to seek refuge with the Party. Zhou Enlai himself had Puyi evacuated to a safe house where he passed away in 1967.

    • @makkanan
      @makkanan 4 месяца назад +15

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

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 4 месяца назад

      @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.

    • @Gl0bal6777
      @Gl0bal6777 4 месяца назад +4

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

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 4 месяца назад

      @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.

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 4 месяца назад +6

      @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.

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +18

    In a way, Pu Yi epitomizes the lyrics from Cold Play's song, Viva La Vida. Makes me wonder if the band had his life story in mind when they wrote the song.

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 4 месяца назад +30

    In accordance with the laws of the People's Republic of China at the time, Puyi's body was cremated. His ashes were first placed at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, alongside those of other party and state dignitaries. This was the burial ground of imperial concubines and eunuchs prior to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. In 1995, as part of a commercial arrangement, Puyi's ashes were transferred by his widow Li Shuxian to the Hualong Imperial Cemetery in return for monetary support. The cemetery is near the Western Qing Tombs, 120 km (75 mi) southwest of Beijing, where four of the nine Qing emperors preceding him are interred, along with three empresses and 69 princes, princess, and imperial concubines. In 2015, some descendants of the Aisin-Gioro clan bestowed posthumous names upon Puyi and his wives. Wenxiu and Li Yuqin were not given posthumous names as their imperial status was removed upon divorce.

  • @Lin-eo5xu
    @Lin-eo5xu 4 месяца назад +3

    There is an interesting story about Puyi. When Puyi was released from prison, Primier Zhou Enlai said "How can an Emperor not have an Empress" to Puyi and wanted him to find a new wife. Puyi must of won a jackpot for how lucky he was treated by the Beiyang Government, Nationalist Government and Communist Government.

  • @okancanarslan3730
    @okancanarslan3730 4 месяца назад +11

    Puyi's hedonistic (and sadistic) upbringing shows that Chinese emperors had become just "divine" figureheads long before the fall of qing dynasty.

  • @deathdrone6988
    @deathdrone6988 4 месяца назад +53

    Given his position and the history of fallen emperors and monarchs, he was treated extremely well which you'd think is ironic since being a emperor is the literal final boss to communists, but the whole idea of everyone should be treated equally and a desire to be seen as better than their Bolshevik peers (that murdered the Romanovs during the Russian civil war) lead to him being treated very favourably, at least compared to socialists in the West or the upper-class in the Eastern-Block during that time.

    • @atNguyen-gm9xi
      @atNguyen-gm9xi 4 месяца назад

      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

    • @danielc9967
      @danielc9967 4 месяца назад +2

      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.

    • @ingstimated1873
      @ingstimated1873 4 месяца назад +6

      @@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.

    • @danielc9967
      @danielc9967 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @franklee2679
      @franklee2679 4 месяца назад +2

      @@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

  • @MysticDojo
    @MysticDojo 4 месяца назад +8

    actually Puyi had a younger brother who married into japanese noblity and whose descendants still live on to this day

  • @LaLunarFox
    @LaLunarFox 4 месяца назад +15

    In the end he was just a man who wants to escape from what he calls a "prison" for him, he just wants to know the outside world. In the end, he finally get to feel a glimpse of his happiness

  • @matheusrondelleite8015
    @matheusrondelleite8015 4 месяца назад +79

    Puyi's story is a tragical one. A boy, playboyed by his servants his entire life, not given limits by adults around him, treated as God, was certainly in a direction to become a sadistic guy because human behavior to dominate is one of things that explains why we had the need for religion. Although it cannot be ignored that he accepted that the Japanese used violence to subdue the people, and he himself did horrible acts for his amusement, the adults around him should and could tame him, because even a "God" has limits.
    Also, sadly, in the 21st century we still see children being raised without limits and becoming sadistic bastards as adults

    • @AlphaSections
      @AlphaSections 4 месяца назад +3

      Actually a very good point!

    • @tyshawnbryant3468
      @tyshawnbryant3468 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @tyshawnbryant3468
      @tyshawnbryant3468 3 месяца назад

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

  • @brettstarks1846
    @brettstarks1846 4 месяца назад +46

    One thing that should also be mentioned is that in 1928, Chinese soldiers looted and defiled the tombs of Manchu/Qing royalty. That undoubtedly soured Puyi on China and made him more inclined to embrace Japan.

    • @shinybreloom4027
      @shinybreloom4027 4 месяца назад +6

      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.

    • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj
      @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 3 месяца назад +5

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

    • @HWDragonborn
      @HWDragonborn 3 месяца назад +1

      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?

  • @Gen.berseker25
    @Gen.berseker25 4 месяца назад +37

    More Qing and Manchu history, please! Especially the Jurchens (the ancestors of the Manchu) and the Qing invasion of Joseon!

    • @ironheart5830
      @ironheart5830 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj
      @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 3 месяца назад +2

      @@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.

    • @ironheart5830
      @ironheart5830 3 месяца назад

      @@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj interesting

    • @부엉이형-r8t
      @부엉이형-r8t 3 месяца назад +1

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

    • @부엉이형-r8t
      @부엉이형-r8t 3 месяца назад

      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

  • @VentiVonOsterreich
    @VentiVonOsterreich 4 месяца назад +24

    Gone, reduced to atoms
    Like King Louis became Citizen Capet

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +5

      That was before they chopped off his head.

    • @miles_tails0511
      @miles_tails0511 4 месяца назад +8

      At least Puyi kept his head and got to live life

  • @farhanfakhriza6149
    @farhanfakhriza6149 4 месяца назад +3

    This Puyi's Story gives a quite literal meaning to Coldplay's Viva la Vida
    "I used to rule the world
    Seas would rise when I gave the word
    Now in the morning, I sleep alone
    Sweep the streets I used to own"

  • @HenningGu
    @HenningGu 4 месяца назад +14

    I wonder if people recognized him regularly. From what I've been told from my family, most citizens did not know how the emperor looked like. At least during the hey-day of the Empire.

    • @shinybreloom4027
      @shinybreloom4027 4 месяца назад

      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?

  • @Moribus_Artibus
    @Moribus_Artibus 10 дней назад +1

    Bertolucci's fascinating 1987 film on his life is a must see!

  • @donaldlee8249
    @donaldlee8249 4 месяца назад +14

    The map marked Nepal where Tibet is, what a sloppy mistake

  • @Vanic00
    @Vanic00 4 месяца назад +14

    From Qin Shi Huang to Puyi, for 2,133 years the Emperor of China ruled the Middle Kingdom. The First was a King, and a General, the Last was a Puppet and a Gardener. So much for the Mandate of Heaven.

    • @yohannessulistyo4025
      @yohannessulistyo4025 4 месяца назад +3

      "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.

    • @haoyang8466
      @haoyang8466 4 месяца назад

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

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +8

    I loved Bernardo Bertolucci's biopic, The Last Emperor, which was about the Pu Yi's life. Very excellent film.

  • @christerprestberg3973
    @christerprestberg3973 4 месяца назад +21

    I can highly recommend "From Emperor to Citizen" an autobiography of PuYi . From the first time I heard about him, thx hearts of irons IV ^^, Ive found him to be one of the most interesting historical figures.

  • @ImperialEarthEmpire
    @ImperialEarthEmpire 4 месяца назад +28

    I wonder how the romanov will end up if they were spared and allowed to live as commoners...

    • @jonathanwells223
      @jonathanwells223 4 месяца назад +8

      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.

    • @erenliebert4576
      @erenliebert4576 4 месяца назад

      @@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

    • @MalevolentBite
      @MalevolentBite 4 месяца назад

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

    • @battenburg6089
      @battenburg6089 4 месяца назад

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

    • @p_1945
      @p_1945 4 месяца назад

      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.

  • @TheManFromWaco
    @TheManFromWaco 4 месяца назад +4

    From what I remember from a newspaper article I read some months ago, the man who would've been the heir to the Ryukyu Kingdom (Okinawa, Japan) had it continued to exist, currently owns and tends a bar in the city of Naha. When Japan officially annexed Okinawa in 1879, the native monarchy was dissolved, but the dethroned monarch was allowed to marry a niece of the Meiji Emperor and thus enjoy a cushy lifestyle as part of the imperial family. However, after WWII, only Hirohito and his immediate family were allowed to keep their royal status. So the Ryukyuan branch became private citizens and eventually moved back to the island they used to rule.

    • @alextam167
      @alextam167 2 месяца назад

      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.

  • @ickyash
    @ickyash 4 месяца назад +21

    "Hitler shot himself in a bunker"
    "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deleted"
    "His junkie wife"
    Mans was not holding back this episode 😂

    • @saidtoshimaru1832
      @saidtoshimaru1832 2 месяца назад

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

  • @whiterunguard1429
    @whiterunguard1429 4 месяца назад +2

    "I used to rule the world
    Seas would rise when i gave the word
    Now in the morning, I sleep alone
    Sweep the streets I used to own."
    An excerpt from 'Viva la Vida' by Coldplay. The lyrics pair great when it concerns Puyi.

  • @Minboelf
    @Minboelf 4 месяца назад +16

    imagine your walking down the street in the 1950s and some random man walked up to you and said: "I'm the Emperor of China, do you know how to get to this place?"

  • @nealstultz8705
    @nealstultz8705 4 месяца назад +1

    I love stories like this. The heights of power to valleys. Some willingly (Diocletian), and others chosen for them (Puyi), but still finding peace and contentment in a humble lifestyle. Lesson for us all.

  • @justindieterich1773
    @justindieterich1773 4 месяца назад +14

    The writing in this was top notch. As much as a McDonalds crew manager 🤣

    • @micalangenburg1706
      @micalangenburg1706 4 месяца назад

      that caught me off-guard lol

    • @sommyben07
      @sommyben07 4 месяца назад

      Fr I nearly pissed myself after hearing that😂

  • @tengma9902
    @tengma9902 4 месяца назад +41

    Chinese history be like:
    a dude failed an exam, decide he is the brother of Jesus, starts a civil war 20 million dies. the dude never even read the Bible.

    • @SindhuArellano
      @SindhuArellano 4 месяца назад

      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

    • @fishsalted3560
      @fishsalted3560 4 месяца назад

      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.

  • @alvint2635
    @alvint2635 3 месяца назад +1

    That is one smart way to put your sponsor in the video. 👏 😅

  • @renevalleramos994
    @renevalleramos994 4 месяца назад +23

    From riches to rags story.

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew 4 месяца назад

      @@barbiquearea emperor to street cleaner

  • @PickleRiiiiiiick
    @PickleRiiiiiiick 4 месяца назад +4

    McDonald's crew managers are pretty powerful. Be careful or you might not get a shift for weeks.

  • @absoleet
    @absoleet 4 месяца назад +2

    Anyone remember watching Last Emperor film directed by Bertolucci back in the 80s in cinemas?

  • @josephsarra4320
    @josephsarra4320 4 месяца назад +8

    Can you go over next the last pharaoh of Egypt?

    • @Latinkon
      @Latinkon 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @josephsarra4320
      @josephsarra4320 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @cj-ace
    @cj-ace 4 месяца назад +5

    Puyi, if he was raised properly then I think he could have regained the title not as it once was but maybe as a constitutional monarchy type of system.

    • @AtifHieder
      @AtifHieder 4 месяца назад

      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

  • @Aika1801
    @Aika1801 4 месяца назад +4

    while this is overall a great video, the clothes of the consorts (and I guess the woman in those european-only exclusive clubs) need further research.
    besides the fact that from the point of view of the wearer, the fold of the robes are always supposed to be left side above the right side (anything else is offensive since it's tied to corpses and dead people's funerals), those were clothes that had very much fallen out of fashion by the 1600s. puyi lived in the 20th century...
    cixi's clothes - while extremely stylised - were on point, and since she too was a consort, puyi's consorts would have worn the same during their life at court. afterwards, they would have worn simple qipaos. nancy duong (lilsuika) has a nice infographic about this on her deviantart. i hope future videos will be better in their research regarding clothes. 😓

  • @hameedullahkhan3533
    @hameedullahkhan3533 4 месяца назад +1

    I would suggest you guys look into the last titular Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam Osman Ali Khan and his grandson, Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan, who passed away just last year. Their story is one that has may similarities to Piyu. Love the work you all do!

  • @juanrobles4814
    @juanrobles4814 2 месяца назад

    Love the illustrations in this video

  • @tg1982
    @tg1982 4 месяца назад +2

    Fascinating story, thank you K&G!

  • @ZechsMerquise195
    @ZechsMerquise195 4 месяца назад +1

    I always found his story to be quite tragic. Hope he found some peace in his old age.

  • @Ferrum_Intra
    @Ferrum_Intra 4 месяца назад

    Thank you KaG for this amazing work. The life of Puyi has always intrigued me deeply. Guess it's the tragedy of being the last Emperor of a long Dynasty, or the contrast of living the "Highest High and the "Lowest Low".
    I sincerely recommend everyone here to read his own autobiography called: "From Emperor, to Citizen", and Paul Kramer's "The Last Emperor". Truly a humbling experience.
    Best wishes to all.

  • @maddog4u31757
    @maddog4u31757 4 месяца назад +4

    That "McDonald's Crew Manager" sounded personal lol

  • @stevefon4934
    @stevefon4934 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for the video! I'd like to mention that in the maps of ROC, Tibet in the southwest was miswritten as Nepal. But in general, you did a great job!

  • @Mark3ABE
    @Mark3ABE 3 месяца назад +1

    Technically, he was not the last Emperor, since the second President of the Republic restored the Imperial system of government, after which Pu Yi was returned to power briefly, after which he abdicated in favour of the President, who reigned as Emperor for about eighty days, after which he was removed as a result of pressure from the international powers and the threat of a popular uprising. Then, while Pu Yi was, nominally, Emperor, he never reigned. The Dowager Empress reigned for him, as Regent and abdicated on his behalf.

  • @SomasAcademy
    @SomasAcademy 4 месяца назад +14

    I find it amusing how the writer of this video included some really casual language/jokes that just completely clash with the presenter's style, like delivering the line "a guy decided he was the brother of Jesus Christ" and "Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been deleted" with the exact same tone as everything else lmao

    • @marcurius5749
      @marcurius5749 4 месяца назад +5

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

    • @virgyvirgil
      @virgyvirgil 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy 4 месяца назад +6

      @@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.

    • @miles_tails0511
      @miles_tails0511 4 месяца назад +1

      Makes it pretty funny imo 😂

    • @marcurius5749
      @marcurius5749 4 месяца назад

      @@SomasAcademy Yeah I got your meaning :)

  • @venkatt6281
    @venkatt6281 4 месяца назад +1

    Very nice production. Love the narration and script. Great story

  • @kill5850
    @kill5850 4 месяца назад +1

    He works at the Botanical Gardens, observing plants, which is a government agency, the equivalent of a civil servant. The working environment is very quiet, not easy to be disturbed, and the work is very leisure. For him, fresh out of prison, it's actually a protection. After working in the botanical garden for a year, went to work in the CPPCC.

  • @Minorheadlines
    @Minorheadlines 3 месяца назад +1

    His era name was Xuantong Emperor meaning "proclamation of unity"

  • @Khichira2012
    @Khichira2012 4 месяца назад +1

    I learnt a lot about the last emperor with this video! I am surprised he was sent to visit the aftermath of unit-731, which must have been shocking

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 4 месяца назад +4

    I can't tell if K&G is being creative with censorship or if they've developed a dark sense of humor.

  • @SueFerreira75
    @SueFerreira75 4 месяца назад

    Worth reading - Twilight in the Forbidden City by Reginald Johnston - Pu Yi's tutor
    Worth watching - The Last Emperor (1987) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
    Not about Pu Yi, but worth reading - Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

  • @saidtoshimaru1832
    @saidtoshimaru1832 2 месяца назад

    14:31 - "In reality, that emperor welded as much legislative power as a MacDonald's crew manager".
    That was brutal.

  • @Yuckers666
    @Yuckers666 4 месяца назад +1

    Could you make a documentary video about the 100 days reform of Emperor Guangxu of China and the Cadiz Constitution of 1812 of the Spanish Empire? Thank you so much with your educational videos.

  • @eugenekramer4528
    @eugenekramer4528 4 месяца назад +3

    10:20: Feng Yuxiang. Feng is the family name, and Yuxiang, the given name. Therefore it should be General Feng, not General Yuxiang.

  • @MNTennamG
    @MNTennamG 4 месяца назад +2

    Amazing video as always, but a eyesore to see is that Tibet is not included on this map. Even more erroneous is that in its stead a pinpoint of "Nepal" is plastered over the Tibetan Highlands. I am sure this video took long, but please ensure that historical accuracy of maps is kept to date. Tibet was a independent state during that time and to not even include it seems disingenuousness

  • @Reignor99
    @Reignor99 4 месяца назад +2

    Everybody asks "who was the last Emperor?"
    but nobody asks "how was the last Emperor?"

  • @michellechee9065
    @michellechee9065 4 месяца назад +2

    Is there a particular reason why you couldn't get an accurate image of WanRong and WenXiu? Their photographs are all over the internet. We haven't even come to the part where you put them in Han clothing from two thousand years ago rather than modern Qing robes or 1900s Qipao

  • @martincamacho2444
    @martincamacho2444 4 месяца назад +2

    Has anyone ever seen the movie the last Emperor 1987 directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

  • @WagudCode
    @WagudCode Месяц назад +1

    Kinda off topic for cities like Peking, why are the US not ever mention as one of the non Asian powers there when they had marines there and I think some form of a base?

  • @DarrenMarshall.
    @DarrenMarshall. 4 месяца назад +1

    There was also an Italian colonial concession in Tianjin, from 1901 to 1943. Today you can still find some buildings built by Italians.

  • @johnpeterson8674
    @johnpeterson8674 4 месяца назад +7

    One of his descendants runs a clinic today...just remembered that.

  • @wmhld
    @wmhld 4 месяца назад +1

    A large part of his reason of the misery of his later years was caused by his choice of cooperating with the Japanese. Puyi's father Zaifeng was against it and refused to cooperate with the Japanese, and CCP had no peoblem with him. Puyi's siblings, as long as they did not work with the Japanese, could have peaceful life while Puyi was in jail in the 1950s.

  • @devnull1200
    @devnull1200 4 месяца назад +1

    He might have been moved by the surrounding environment throughout his life. He might have not had a normal upbringing or regular life. But that would never justify his behaviour or complicities, even after reform.

  • @chrismorris6865
    @chrismorris6865 4 месяца назад +2

    Such an interesting life. A man who literally swept the streets he used to own.

  • @davidjones535
    @davidjones535 4 месяца назад +1

    There was a movie made about all this interesting 80s called The Last Emperor

  • @Rhye_
    @Rhye_ 4 месяца назад +1

    14:45 this sounds very familiar, current almost.

  • @SeijiOkami
    @SeijiOkami 4 месяца назад

    Great video and an incredible story of Puyi. Could we also get a video of Puyi’s relative Yoshiko Kawashima ? Aka the eastern jewel aka The eastern Mata Hari

  • @Hemanj24
    @Hemanj24 2 месяца назад

    Can you do a documentary series on Mughal empire after the first 6 Mughal ? There is not much talked about it, and I feel it would be interesting to see how Mughal lost power more in detail if you can ?

  • @nikostrand8570
    @nikostrand8570 4 месяца назад +1

    Is this just the Wikipedia page narrated? Especially the later life chapter was very similar. Where are the sources? The google doc linked in the description is inaccurate and has totally unrelated sources listed.

  • @enzotomasoni9133
    @enzotomasoni9133 3 месяца назад

    Can you make a video about the Empress Dowager Cixi, please 🥺?

  • @李南榮
    @李南榮 4 месяца назад +3

    他的後半生被別人掌握住。在那種情況裏他說了什麼,作了什麼,都不應該當作他的言行,因為他身不由己

    • @王互娱
      @王互娱 4 месяца назад +1

      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😂

  • @teovu5557
    @teovu5557 4 месяца назад +1

    Puyi's family and his dynastic clan were tungusic jurchen(manchu) people of the aizin gioluo and Mongolians as both group mixed and intermarried.

  • @rxt1366
    @rxt1366 4 месяца назад +2

    Could we get an episode like this for Mannerheim?

  • @FastTquick
    @FastTquick 4 месяца назад

    Puyi seems to be like a tragic character in a movie. Imagine seeing yourself in his shoes and being raised to be emperor of a dying nation, have said dying nation taken away from you, then be exploited by various world powers to be a figurehead, only to realize too late said world powers were committing atrocities without your knowledge, all because you just wanted to live the life you always knew.

    • @Latinkon
      @Latinkon 4 месяца назад +1

      Puyi's life was already made into a movie. Literally titled "The Last Emperor" from director Bernardo Bertolucci. An underrated classic.

  • @Shadefinder1
    @Shadefinder1 4 месяца назад +2

    Just calling it unit 731 minimizes the whole of the Japanese archipelago.... can you do a video on all the facilities that japan had?

  • @treystewart731
    @treystewart731 4 месяца назад

    A video on the founding of the Qing Dynasty would be cool too.

  • @AbhyudayaSinh
    @AbhyudayaSinh 4 месяца назад +2

    Very informative ❤❤

  • @arminhergl5388
    @arminhergl5388 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for covering this very interesting topic. Never heard of Pu Yi's fate after he was dethroned by Chiang Kaichek

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea 4 месяца назад +8

    I like how despite his spoiled and sadistic nature. Mao chose not to execute him and allowed him to live out the rest of his life like any other civilian in Communist China. At the very least he did not end up like other deposed heads of state such as Tsar Nicholas II or King Louis XVI. And at least in the end, he grew a conscious and lived happier as a simple man than as emperor. If anything, the real tragedy was how depressed he must have been when he saw all the bad things done in his name, while he was a puppet of the Japanese.

    • @jonathanwells223
      @jonathanwells223 4 месяца назад

      He fit in well with the communists it seems…

  • @LibertarianLeninistRants
    @LibertarianLeninistRants 4 месяца назад

    A very inspiring story.
    I am gonna read his autobiography one day

  • @camilogonzalez5576
    @camilogonzalez5576 4 месяца назад +2

    He was a criminal... But then again, he was not an adult, in the sense that his life wasn't led by himself. He never grew up before his captivity, he never matured before the communist takeover. In that sense, I wouldn't consider him responsible for his acts, because he was a child that wasn't allowed to know any better.

  • @tkyap2524
    @tkyap2524 4 месяца назад

    He was thrust into his fate. When he became a commoner, he was not shabbily treated.

  • @dclark142002
    @dclark142002 4 месяца назад +5

    His life is a tragedy.
    At no point was there anyone to help him not become a weak monster. So he became a weak monster. By the time reality caught up with him, too much damage had been done...both in his own life, and the life of his subjects, for much to be salvaged.

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for the video

  • @tomriley5790
    @tomriley5790 4 месяца назад

    What an amazing life, few people can have lived in such "interesting times"